Thanksgiving with my aunt Pam holding a young me in 1981.

Daniel Pinna, approximately 1 yr old, being held by his mother, Kathy Pinna. They were visiting his grandmother, Joyce Vandever, at work at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. This little boy grew up to be the cofounder and guiding light of AncientFaces

L to R: Elaine Kroetch Bell Gillett, Daniel Joseph Pinna, and Norma Kroetch Erickson. Norma and Elaine were the great-aunts of Daniel. Daniel was 3 months old and a charmer! :)

Uncle John Kroetch with nephew Daniel...San Jose, CA. 9 mos old

Daniel & his crazy Grandfather, Frank Daniel was 4 weeks old

Left to right: Kathy Kroetch Pinna, Pam Kroetch Marks, Joyce Benning Kroetch (mother of Kathy and Pam, grandmother of Daniel), and Daniel J. Pinna. Three generations - taken many years ago!

Frank Kroetch with Daniel Pinna, grandson, at his home in Edmonds Washington. Dad kept dressing him in a Seahawks shirt, I kept changing it to the Raiders - or, on occasion a 49'ers. Neither of us won - he's not a football fan to this day! Daniel grew up in California.

Eileen Constance (Connie) Tasker Benning Barrett d'Albert with her great-grandson, Daniel Pinna at Christmas. Boy, did they have fun! She taught him to peek at presents before Christmas - I taught him not to peek!

Grandfather Frank Kroetsch with his grandson, Daniel.

Daniel at his 2nd birthday...not too happy. From left-right: Kathy, Pam, Me, Daniel and my mother, Connie Tasker Benning D'Albert.

DJ and his first "car"; a crazy driver even back then!

A photo of Frank Kroetch and grandson Daniel Pinna. The Missouri is on the right, a destroyer on the left. My father (Frank Kroetch) carrying my son (Daniel Pinna) when he was about 2 1/2 yrs old. My Dad was on a destroyer in WW2 (the Killen) and I love the generational/history feeling of this photo. The Missouri was in Bremerton Washington when this was taken - where my mother grew up and where the Killen was first commissioned. My father was a plankholder, being on the Killen from commissioning to decommissioning in San Diego.

Little Daniel Pinna with his great-grandmother Connie Tasker D'albert (left) and his grandmother, Joyce Benning Kroetch (on right).

Not sure what Easter this photo was taken nor the location. Potentially my grandmother's house on David in San Jose? I was always great finding those Easter eggs with my 'eagle eyes' :)

Eileen Constance "Connie" Tasker Benning Barrett d'Albert with her great-grandson, Daniel. Taken at Connie's daughter's home.

This photo was taken of me, Daniel Pinna, when I was on my way to my high school's (Bellarmine College Prep, San Jose) senior prom.

Sometimes we invite our favorite landlubbers!

A photo of Michelle Cassidy and Daniel Pinna taken circa 2002 in Daniel's aunt's (Pamela Marks) kitchen in Willow Glen, San Jose, CA - with his aunt's two new puppies, Corky and Nina.

Three generations of Pinnas at the college graduation of Daniel Pinna. L to R: John (uncle of Daniel, Nancy (grandmother of Daniel), Daniel, & Leonard (father of Daniel). The Pinnas live in Arizona, Daniel and his mother in California.

A photo of my son, Daniel Pinna, his girlfriend Michele Cassidy, and his father, Leonard Pinna, on Daniel's 22nd birthday, 1/11/03.

Mother's Day at lunch, Joyce and her grandson.

My sister's daughter Laynie Marks Jacobs and my son Daniel Pinna at Easter, 2005. Wonderful human beings!

This photo was taken while I was Vice President of BlackStone Discovery - an eDiscovery company based in Palo Alto, California - recently after I led re-branding of the business.

A Bellarmine family! This photo of Daniel J. Pinna, Michael Fiorillo and Fr. Jerry Wade was taken at Fiorillos restaurant in Santa Clara nearby to Santa Clara University. Michael at the time had his son attending Bellarmine College Prep., and Fr. Jerry Wade married Daniel and Lisa Pinna in Pebble Beach CA a few years earlier in 2014.

Almost 20 years after I graduated Bellarmine College Prep in '99 I was fortunate to share my story at the 2018 Bellarmine Fashion Show to raise funds for the scholarship program. There were two appeal speeches I made - one at lunch and another during dinner. This photo was taken in the evening. I was joined by Tim & Debbie Kinslow, Kathy Pinna & my wonderful wife Lisa for lunch. My wife and I had the pleasure of being joined by Michelle Cassidy and Andrew Shepard for dinner. The Bellarmine Fashion Show had until recent years been hosted at the Fairmont in downtown San Jose before being hosted in 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I recall working as a student at the Fashion Show, and within the last five hears being a sponsor when the event was hosted at the Fairmont. So in an odd twist of fate, it just so happened that we all ended the night dancing and staying at the Fairmont.

Daniel J. Pinna & wife Lisa M. Pinna headed to Santa Clara University's Golden Circle fundraiser outside their home in Willow Glen in 2018. Both attended Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California although graduated a few years apart.

Daniel’s grandfather Frank Kroetch shopped at Eli Thomas back in the 1960s and Daniel Pinna has been a regular since he went to Bellarmine College Prep. This photo is of Eli’s son Jim Thomas and Daniel at Eli Thomas men’s store at Santana Row taken days before Christmas 2019.

Daniel and wife Lisa Pinna at their home in Willow Glen San Jose celebrating Halloween with friends & family in 2019.

1st cousins Daniel Pinna and Laynie Jacobs.

Grandmother Joyce Vandever with her grandson Daniel and granddaughter Laynie taken in San Jose Ca.

Left to right: Kathy (Kroetch) Pinna, Pam (Kroetch) Marks, and Daniel Joseph Pinna.

My father, Frank Kroetsch, teaching grandson "D.J." how to read!