MIKE WAS A VERY ENERGETIC MAN. WHEN IT CAME TO FISHING HE WAS GONE HE LOVED HIS FAMILY UNCONDITIONALLY NO MATTER THE CERCUMSTANCES HE WOULD STOP WHATEVER HE WAS DOING TO BE WITH THEM IN A TIME OF NEED. MIKES MOTHER CONNIE KENNEDY WORKED AT A CHICKEN FACTORY WHEN THE CHICKENS WOULD DIE MIKE WOULD WANT THEM FOR THEIR INNER PARTS FOR BAIT.HIS BROTHER DAVE TOLD HIM TO PUT THEM IN PANTY HOSE AND LET THEM BAKE IN THE SUN. MIKE,HIS BROTHER DAVE,AND NEPHEW JOHN TOOK OFF AND WENT FISHING AND AS SOON AS THE LID ON THE BUCKET CAME OFF THE THREE OF THEM WAS THROWING UP AND CONSTANTLY GAGGING NOW THAT SHIT WAS FUNNY AS HELL. ANOTHER MEMORY IS WHEN MIKE WAS TRYING TO GET HIS DRIVERS LICSENSE MIKE,HIS MOM AND I WENT TO 3 DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN ONE DAY MIKE DID GREAT UNTIL HE CAME TO A STOP SIGN ITS WHAT THEY CALL A CALIFORNIA STOP HE DID THAT EVERYTIME FRUSTATING BUT FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME.MIKE TRUELY LOVED BEING WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN ARIANNA PRATT,MIRIAH PRATT,JADEN MICHAEL BROOKLYN DONNA MARIE AND MORE. MIKE DID SO MUCH WITH ARIANNA TAUGHT HER HOW TO RIDE HER BIKE,GOING TO THE POND CATCHING BULLFROGS,HE LET HER DRIVE HIS TRUCK TO THE BUS STOP. AND WHEN MIKE WORKED OVERNIGHT HE MADE SURE HE WAS HOME TO WALK HER TO THE BUS EVERY SINGLE DAY. ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS WAS WHEN MIRIAH WAS 6 MONTHS OLD SHE WAS REALLY CRANKY SO MIKE TOOK SOME TAPE AND PUT PIECES OF IT ALL OVER HER AND THAT KEPT HER OCCUPIED FOR A LONG TIME PULLING AT THEM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THEM OFF.ANOTHER MEMORY WAS WHEN THE NIGHT WE GOT MARRIED HIS SISTER JULIE AND I TOOK HIM TO TREATMENT IN DES MOINES JULIE CAR HAD NO HEAT AND ITS IN JANUARY SO WITH THE THREE OF US BREATHING WELL THE WINDSHIELD WELL U ALL KNOW THE REST. MIKE WAS A VERY HARD WORKER LOVED TO COOK AND SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT CAME TO MIND WAS OFF THE CHAIN HIS FOOD HE COOK WAS BREATH TAKING.FAMILY AND FRIENDS FEEL FREE TO WRITE AND LIGHT A CANDLE HE WILL SEE HOW MUCH WE ALL DID LOVE HIM AND HOW MUCH HE IS MISSED MIKE I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART UNTIL WE SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN.