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Here is a pic of me and my brother Tim fishing up north when we were kids. He must have just learned how. Check out the car in the...

The lady in this pic with the dark hair is my Grandma Lorenz. She lived with us for a couple years while dealing with cancer. I spent...

We went to at least one family picnic every year in the summertime. Here is Sam hanging out with some of our younger cousins on a warm...

Our mom loved cats, and we always had at least one cat for a pet in our house when I was growing up. Most didn't last long, but they were...

We used to go to this picnic almost every year while Grandpa (Joe) Katcha was alive. My favorite part was the Croation dancers- the girls...

Mom was so pretty when they first met, and dad was a handsome guy. They met when mom was 18 and got married soon after. They lived a...

Andy took Sam under his wing to show him how to fish, they caught this one together. Two brothers just hanging out. Now they are both...

Check out these curtains, mom had them hung in our new house back in 1959 or so. Yikes! They were black, pink and Aqua colored if I...

My dad and uncle Frank were close- they both loved to gamble and sometimes went together to do that. Uncle Frank had 9 kids, their...

Since we were a Catholic family, even one of us celebrated our First Communion with a party at home after church. This was Sam's day,...

Here is a picture of Sam on his baptism day, what a sweetie!

Ok, so I was a pretty fat baby and toddler apparently. Check out those cheeks, and ugh- those bangs! Why did our mom's cut our bangs so...

My mom and I wearing our matching poodle skirts that she sewed for us- I felt so special to look just like my mom!

For a while, Dad would get a new Cadillac every couple of years. Here is a pic of Dad and Sam in front of one of them, would be around...

This is a portrait of us three older kids- Brian is the oldest, then me, then Andy. Our lives were much different from the three younger...

Here is a pic of my dad as a sailor, he joined the Navy during World War II. He was stationed in Hawaii for a while during he war. Looks...

Dad had a special relationship with our brother Sam, he was the youngest and Dad had more time to spend with him at that point. They...

Andy used to screw up his face, and I thought he looked just like Popeye when he did it. What do you think? Popeye the Sailor Man...

My beautiful parents on their wedding day. Larry and Jeanette Katcha got married on August 28, 1948.

Here I am as a baby, kind of tough looking, don’t you think? I seem to be saying- Just don’t mess with me!