Lori and I met while in high school and started dating our junior year; we were married on Valentines Day 1987 in St. Patrick Catholic Church, Kokomo In. Lori Graduated from Northwestern High School in 1983. She attended Ivy Tech community college, and graduated with an associate’s degree in medical science, she is currently managing KFC. I graduated from Haworth High School in 1983 and I am currently attending Ivy Tech community college working on a degree in medical science. I teach 6th grade Sunday Religious Education, and help with RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.) Adam Graduated Kokomo High school in 2008, and is currently attending Ivy Tech community college and is working on a degree in medical science, he is also employed as a shift manager at KFC. Adam helps his dad teach 6th grade Sunday Religious Education and volunteers for the bridges faith based after school tudoring program for area middle schools. Taylor is in the 7^th grade at St. Joan of Arc Catholic School and is a member of the basketball team. She is active in youth group at St. Patrick and is an altar server. Taylor loves art and animals. The Pickards are active members of St. Patrick Parish. St. Patrick has been a big part of our lives; Lori was baptized at St. Pats in 1965, Adam in 1990, Taylor in 1995, and Chuck in 1996. Lori's patron saint is St. Ann. Adam's Patron saint is St. Anthony. Taylor's patron saint is St. Bernadette, and my Patron saint is Sts. Jerome and Michael (God thought I needed two) St. Rita of Cascia is the Patron Saint of our family. We are very blessed to have a wonderful parish and 4 wonderful priests. Fathers Ted and Andrew Dudzinski, along with Father Thom and Father David make up one of the best pastoral teams you could ever hope for. St. Patrick has a perpetual adoration chapel, and on the second Monday of the month we have the extraordinary form of the Mass (Latin Mass). 10 minutes away from our parish is the monastery of the Poor Clares. St. Pats also has a thriving youth group, and numerous bible studies and adult formation classes, and our outreach programs are second to none. The Pickards are truly blessed to a part of the community of St.Patrick. I have made some wonderful friends through Christ Renews His Parish. The men I have met are fired up for Christ, our goal is to be the best husbands and fathers that we can be, these men have been a blessing to me. Words could not describe what their brotherhood has meant.      

                                    St. Patrick

My passion is studying Catholicism, my second passion is Genealogy below is a family tree of the Pickards.