Kevin was the second child of four children. He grew up with two brothers and one sister. He is the second of three boys.  Randy is the oldest,  Larry is the youngest son, and Retha is his sister. It was the three boys and then their sister, in that order. As a young child he was a momma’s baby.  He would cry when mamma would leave his sight. As he grew older he was a normal, happy go lucky child. Kevin was my clown. He loved to joke around and tease.   One time when he was probably 10 to 12 years old, he wanted to show me his karate chop. He did his kick and then went ooooh!!! He had ripped the back of his pants wide open! Kevin loved food and ate almost anything that did not eat him first. He especially loved my Split Pea Soup and my Rice and Beans. He used to fix his specialty which was Seafood Alfredo. He loved to watch cooking shows and imitate several of the cooks such as Justin Wilson (I think that was his name) especially immedated Justin's pronunciation of (Gaaalic) and Julia Child. In grade school he had become a chubby kid. For those who knew him in later years know that he was very slender. At the beginning of his junior year at Northwood High School, he fell while roller skating and broke his femur bone in his thigh. Surgery on his leg included putting a stainless steel plate in his leg. At that time they sent him home on crutches and told him not to put weight on that leg. A few weeks later he was   at his friend’s house going through a narrow space and accidently put the tip of the crutch on his good foot and went forward onto his bad leg. He had surgery again because he broke the plate that was put in his leg earlier. That was just before Thanksgiving. After that they made a brace to fit his leg.  He had to keep the brace on day and night. The following summer he was diagnosed as a diabetic. Several  years later he got an infection in his leg and had to have surgery to remove a quart of infection from his leg.

Several years later(around 2001 or so his Appendix burst and that was a scarry time because the doctors said it had been burst several days.  After that he had several pancreatic attics. He went to Nappanee Elementary School and Nappanee Middle School and graduated from Northwood High School (Nappanee, IN) in 1988.