Everyday we're doing something incredible and that's taking care of our community.

They both are such giving people.

I think what makes them exceptional is just they truly embody who they are.

The greatest form of love is to pay attention.

I always admired her.

I think a lot of times I tried to copy her.

I found that how dedicated these people are when it comes to the needs of the people.

They just well together.

Legends of Michiana, Jeannine and Nafe Alick Compassionate, Generous and Caring is brought to you by and by.

Thank you.

You know, I grew up in a big, loud Lebanese family, and for people who don't really know what that's like, if you can imagine my Big Fat Greek wedding the movie, it was sort of like that, especially as a young person.

My mother was raised in Michigan City, Indiana.

My dad was raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

But they came together.

We were in Indiana.

We there were a lot of accents, you know, with with immigrant families, lots of accents around and lots of different socioeconomic classes that that give you real perspective on breadth and depth of culture.

And I think that there was something about that that my parents really exposed us to that was very, very valuable leading into eventually what was Alick's Drugs and now Alick's Home Medical.

We had a small house on Colville Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

My dad had a small grocery store that was probably six blocks away from the house.

Our bedrooms were in an attic.

The house was like a you know, and the attic had walls inside that were curved.

So all four of us boys, we had bedrooms up there, and my grandfather was up there too.

So it was it was cozy.

But we didn't, you know, we didn't mind anything as kids.

And we played together and played with neighbors and fought with neighbors, you know.

But we had a we had a nice childhood We grew up in a neighborhood that the kids were all like us.

We both went to the same school.

They both graduated in pharmacy.

And of course, our relationship since that time has grown so close.

What it was like growing up with Jeannine Was having a second mother.

She is always trying to be the most fair.

Always wanted me to do everything correctly and let me know when it wasn't correct.

But you know what?

There's a side to her that is so much fun and she's got a great sense of humor.

I don't know if that came out before, but she really does.

I've always gone to her for advice.

And I found that if you ask her or you tell her about your problem, she'll solve it.

She'll try to solve it.

So, you know, she is that to everybody.

When I grew up, my mother was one of ten children.

She had seven brothers and two sisters, and they all lived in Michigan City and my grandparents on my mother's side.

So and her aunt and uncle lived in Michigan City and they had seven children.

So I grew up with all my cousins and my aunts and uncles, and there was never a time that there wasn't someone to visit to give you love, to eat together.

And it was amazing.

Every Sunday from spring through fall, all of us went to Gardenia Park and had a family picnic.

Now this family picnic had to be over 50, 60 people and growing up in Michigan City with all those cousins and all those relatives was just an unbelievable experience.

My mother was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Nafe's family lived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

they would come back and visit and I would see her, but I didn't you know, I didn't pay much attention to her at that time.

We we're just kids, you know.

He's always been sweet and kind to me and respectful and would always ask and consider what I wanted to do and not just what he wanted to do.

So when someone is kind and respectful, I think you realize this is an important part of who you want in your life, a person and who you would like to live with.

Well I wasn't a very romantic type person you know, It just happened the way I just asked her to marry me.

Because.

Because it was the thing to do, you know, and.

But romantic.

It just.

It just fit.

It was a perfect fit.

And I and of course, I knew that.

So that's how it started.

There was nothing really monumental in this proposal.

He just asked me if I would marry him.

And when I hugged him and said, Welcome, he said, I don't have a ring for you.

I said, That's okay.

He said, I only have a cigar ban.

And then he put the actual ring on my finger.

After he asked me and I agreed my father said, Are you sure?

Because there's no going back.

And then Nafe's father traveled from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to Michigan City, Indiana, to ask my father for my hand in marriage to his son, which was the way our culture did things, which means the two families agree and they come together as one, which I think is so important.

My father used to say, When you get married, his family is your mother and father, and your mother and father are his mother and father.

And that's how we lived our whole life as family.

Our youth was was defined by my father being mostly at work and my mother mostly being at home.

It was a combination that worked really well for us because we got the nurturing at home, we got the work ethic from from my father at work.

And and I think that was something that that we're all very grateful for.

they work perfectly together because it's whatever she wants and he just does it.

And, and, and he doesn't complain.

They just work well together.

So there's a very famous picture at the Oscars of Paul Newman looking at Joanne Woodward.

every woman wants to be looked at.

The way Paul Newman looks at Joanne Woodward.

That is how Nafe looks at his wife, Jeannine They're salt and pepper.

That's how it is.

It's a good complement.

And I think that's what you need for a happy marriage.

You need a complement.

And that's that's they're perfect that way.

That's what they are.

The yin to the yang.

I think that they in some ways are opposite ends of the same spectrum.

They have the same values, the same ethics.

They believe their priorities at the top of the list are the same family father in law.

I love my father-in-law, he is he's he's so humble.

He's thoughtful.

He's hard working.

He is a great listener.

Doesn't get too involved in in your life in a very positive way.

We share the same things in life.

He we couldn't have been where we are today and able to raise our kids.

And if we didn't have such great examples such as them both, to be honest, My dad had had a little grocery store then.

weren't any major supermarkets at that time.

And we had a small store.

We would take cases of cherries and stuff outside and pack them up and they'd come and buy the lug because they would can, you know,a lot of people canned at that time.

So, you know, he taught us a lot of how to treat customers.

And as we grew, And I said, Pa, what do you what do you think I should be?

He said, Be a pharmacy.

You know, he's talking about not great English in broken English.

Say, why don't you be a pharmacy?

Be a pharmacy.

So I said, okay, I'll go in the pharmacy.

And I did.

And I never regretted it.

My dad is a very funny person and he's a hard working person.

And like I said, there's a lot of ways to say I love you, not just with words and kind.

He's a kind, funny, hardworking person.

we all worked in the drugstore growing up, my brothers stock shelves.

We ran registers then my sisters and I.

But my dad would be in the pharmacy when I was little and I'd go look at comic books, get candy, you know, and be in the back, you know, We all did.

Yasmain worked there as long as I can remember.

I mean, I was seven.

She was 14.

She's she worked there always.

And then when we were old enough, we all worked there through high school holidays.

You know, he was open always every holiday.

But it was fun.

It was actually fun for us, it was a family affair because we were all there.

We were all at my father's drugstore helping so many people that the lines we talked about, the lines wrapping around the pharmacy and it was exciting.

I was having a real difficulty getting hired by any pharmacy in town.

Nafe had just purchased his, so he had worked at Hooks, he had purchased his own drugstore, and he was working all the time and he has just about burned himself out and he needed some time off.

I showed up because I needed some work and so we had a marriage right there in the spot.

He wanted a week off.

I said, I want to go back home.

And I said, okay, I'm available.

So we worked a deal.

It worked out fine for both of us.

the other pharmacies that are contacted indicated they had reservations because of the race issue.

Nafe didn't ask any questions.

That wasn't a question for him.

And it was very satisfactory for me that that wasn't a question.

He said, come in, here's our set up.

And I went to work.

Nafe was very relaxed, but he watched carefully.

He knew what you were doing.

He was careful about what make sure you were doing it the way it needs to be done.

But he wasn't a micromanager.

He explained what the job was.

You came in, he respected you as a professional, and that's what we were showing.

That's the way it worked out.

We taken the same board.

He knew I was qualified by my license-ship so that I knew some of his other pharmacists.

And so the match was good.

I am the manager for the technicians.

Basically any of the orders that out on a daily basis I route the technicians and send them on their way.

and I track where they are and what their doing the time frames that sort of thing.

We have a total of 8 technicians at this location so I have to manage all 8 on the road so yeah it's pretty much a lot of responsibility.

On a day, we do anywhere from I would say 90 to 120 orders a day.

We have rollators that we deliver If a person doesn't want a walker and they want a rollator, something higher up, we'll give out the rollators.

We have walkers, nebulizers for breathing treatments.

We have beds that we set up which comes with the mattress half rails and over bed tables so there are a lot of things as far as my thing is whatever you can get from the hospital, you can get from Alick's but at home.

I started the business in 1982 and in 1990, 91, at Thanksgiving time, I told my four children that it was a good business, but a lot of needed a lot of attention and time, and I offered any one of them to come in and be a part of the business.

My son was a lawyer in Manhattan, in New York, and he decided to come in and he came into the business in 1991 Nafe, with his intelligence, was able to understand, read the rules and regulations, Medicare, Medicaid have and understood them quickly and would put them into practice the same as I would, but much more easily.

And he decided we should expand.

And in 1999 we merged with visiting nurses and many others, and it was because Nafe Steven actually grew the business to be bigger and bigger.

I was in college at the University of Michigan and and I'm talking to my to my dad and my mother had gone to the Mayo Clinic and she had met an Italian woman and her name was Roberta.

grandmother, had a had a false elbow, and she took her to Mayo Clinic and she came home with with an Italian woman named Roberta.

She left with my grandmother and came back with another woman.

And it was were going to discharge Roberta and she was still in a full body cast.

She couldn't bend she couldn't sit up.

The issues that she confronted, trying to actually do that, whether she couldn't get a wheelchair that reclined because Roberta was in a body cast and had to lay flat or whether she couldn't get a bed in the living room, she she actually made my dad carry Roberta up the stairs at night so she could sleep where the Alick family slept.

But imagine me on the phone with my dad.

I said, wait a minute.

I got in trouble from bringing a puppy home from camp.

What is she doing?

She's bringing.

She's bringing a person home from Rochester.

I said, Wow.

How come?

He said, That's your mother.

And that is.

That is my mother, right?

So when when she sees, as she did with Roberta, when she sees a person In need, and if she can help, she tries her best to help that person.

Roberta's life was so impacted by Jeannine.

I was amazed that she took her and her home for nine months and had a makeshift she had to have a makeshift wheelchair slash bed to even get her on the plane.

And she tell you that because that's also what made her think that there should have been something that she could have used to make her more comfortable.

after she returned to Italy, my husband said to me one night, you'd be good at this business.

What business?

Nafe Joe realized that she had a passion for it because he told her you should go into business you should do this as a business.

becasue she was spending so many hours of her day helping people out of the goodness of her heart doing it in a meaningful way and that's how Alick's Home Medical was born.

And he told me that his suppliers for his drugstore wanted him to do wheelchairs, hospital beds in the drugstore.

He said there's no place for it in retail.

It takes service.

He said, You love people.

You care about people.

You should do this business.

And I thought, Me, I have four children.

The youngest was 15, and what do I know about insurance companies and etc..

But so result I said yes.

And started with three people.

And that's how Alick's Home Medical began.

You know, I witnessed it firsthand and just how the feelings were that, you know, that we were received when we came into the household.

And then I started to hear stories about the family and in particular, how Alick's Home Medical came about with the compassion that Jeannine had when running into, you know, a fellow patient and how that led to her mission to just help somebody.

Yeah.

I was so impressed.

Like, from, like, social humanity.

She's trying to help people, and this is how she started.

It was really simple.

Not many people have an origin story like Alick's Home Medical.

What Jeannine did and what she saw when she saw someone in need and the fact that we need home medical equipment.

So she's sort of this ultimate steel magnolia.

Jeannine is she's a woman who exemplifies both traditional femininity and an uncommon fortitude.

She saw a need in the community.

She saw needed our region.

But that origin story where it almost feels like Jeannine was meant to do this and she couldn't not open a home medical basically business to help her community.

It reminds me of I have two very good friends who are priests at Notre Dame, and they had an epiphany moment, both of them very different epiphany moments where they knew I have to become a priest, that that's what I that's what I'm called to do.

That's what I need to do.

I feel like Jeannine had that epiphany moment, a very similar epiphany moment when she met a woman in need who needed this very specific, very specific health care And if I don't think my mom sometimes would look at the bottom line, she would just give it.

And sometimes you have to you know, you have to find a way, How are we going to do this so you don't lose anything?

She didn't care about that.

Not at all.

So doesn't see obstacles and she's just not afraid.

She's not afraid to try, not afraid to on.

Well becasue we care is not a slogan for Alick's again that was born out of the provision of a rose.

Every driver who delivered a of medical equipment recieved a rose in the milk vase, that company went out of business and it just wasn't, they couldn' find another location that was economical for them to provide that so it just became because we care.

In fact, a lot of times you'll s in the commercial closing, we'll be a close up, zoom in of a rose in a glass and many we'll recognize that and knows what that means.

Well she has given almost all her life to this.

You know, we are talking about, you know, servicing the people with need.

And the need here is and the equipment which they need at home.

And we are very much trying that the people who have less potential of getting better, that they stay at home rather than they stay in the hospital, and that is nationwide.

I think is is a drive that if you don't need a hospital, let's make sure that we take a hospital to their home so they can stay at home in a very friendly environment and their needs are met.

Another interesting story that I have it's kind of amusing about Jeannine becasue we spent so much time together I could kind of sense sometimes when something was bothering her This particular day, I asked her Jeannine it seems like something is bothering you.

Well, not really bothering me but my husband's a little bit upset with me today and I said why is that?

Well he got a call from the cabl installation company.

and they were talking about installing a satellite dish Oh so you're getting satellite s she says, well no I'm not, a patient or a customer who I met has mobility issues.

And he looks forward to watching JAG everyday.

The service the he had was dropping that and the only way he could watch that is if he had a satellite dish so I paid for the satellite dish so he could keep watching JAG.

And my husband found out about that and was not very happy about that we'll say but that's just an example of Jeannine being generous and philanthropic If you talk to my mom, it's not just a job or this is about make it.

It's not.

It's personal.

And actually caring about somebody situation Because why be in this business if you're not going to treat them like they were your family?

And the the funny thing is or not funny, but they actually look at them that way.

It's important to them that their customer feel how much they care about them.

They explain all the equipment w set up They explain it to our customers they basically treat them as if they were family.

Explaining everything in detail on each piece of equipment.

Everyday we're doing something incredible and that's taking care of our community.

A lot of people didn't ask for the hand that they were dealt.

It's our job to take the ease off of that situation by taking care of them.

Our story began when one evening my husband came home from work and he had a food bag of delicious Lebanese food.

And I asked him where did he get the food?

And he said, I have a Lebanese customers.

I met them years ago, and this evening I had an appointment with them.

She invited me to the house, she wanted to do something with the rugs, repair.

And and then again, we reconnected even deeper this time.

And then before I was leaving, she says to me, Oh, you must take this food.

And she made this beautiful dish, Lebanese food.

And I brought it to our home.

And without knowing there, I was already so impressed that she assured her generosity, sending home food to home to the people that she never met, And while we are enjoying the food, my husband said, by the way, I invite them to come over to our house next Saturday for Persian dinner.

And I told them What?

You invite them to our house?

I don't even know them.

I don't know what to tell them, what to cook for them.

And my husband said, Don't worry, if you meet them, you will absolutely love them.

They are the most comfortable down, down to I and beautiful people.

And I'm so glad my husband made that decision and the taht next Saturday, Jeannien and Nafe and their beautiful granddaughter Ellena came to our house.

And that was the beginning of the most beautiful relationship.

Very close friends with Jeannine and Nafe Joseph's son Nafe, in fact, so much so that when we have get togethers at their son's home, I'm usually one of the one persons in charge of bringing food for the afternoon when we're doing outdoor barbecues or get togethers.

And so I'll go to the store, I'll do my shopping, and I'll plan out what the menus are.

I'll make sure we have enough food for the number of guests that are going to show up.

And then sometimes Nafe will tell me sometimes not, that his mom's coming over.

She might bring something and I show up and there's twice as much food for everyone there.

And I walk in there and I go, Oh, why did I spend my morning going to the store?

We are all covered.

Not only is she a great cook, but I think is part of the their culture.

They just want to make sure everyone's really well fed.

we had a a pretty big conference.

And it was the Association of Health Care Philanthropy.

And it took place in Naples, Florida.

So my CEO at the time wanted, of course, myself to attend.

And then several board members and the board chair of the foundation at that time, and that's Nafe Steven because we were there and in, you know, beautiful hotel, beautiful Ritz-Carlton in Naples.

Nafe mentioned that his mom and dad were also there at that time.

It was a February conference, so bitter, bitter cold in South Bend, but beautiful in Naples.

He said, Do you mind if we have dinner with my parents?

And I thought, Yeah, that'd be great.

It would be fun.

So we check into the hotel.

There's a beautiful dining room.

There's more than one.

There's a beautiful dining room in the Ritz, and I walk in, and it's not just Nafe and his mom and dad.

It's Aunt Candi and Uncle Rich.

It's.

Yasmain It was.

I believe they might have had some family friends visiting as well.

But what I looked in this room, it kind of looked like Thanksgiving dinner.

It was this great big table full of people, very friendly.

And then I was kind of the new the new person to the table.

It was I was immediately, immediately comfortable.

It was it was a lot of fun.

Halloween for her was a was a big deal because she had so many children that would come to the door.

So my mother started dressing up like the fairy godmother.

Right.

So she had this flowing gown.

She'd have the wand, she'd have the tiara, she would wave it and said, Come in, come in.

I am your fairy godmother.

So in addition to dressing up, she also decided to provide full size candy bars for all these Halloween for their treats.

And so she would bring these candy bars in and she'd put them all over her, her her table, and she'd bring the kids into the home.

And in they would come, they would come in and they'd be wide eyed.

Here's this fairy godmother and here's this Oh, my gosh, this is my wish.

My wish is to have this candy bar.

So she would bring them in and she and they would have just such a wonderful, wonderful time at the beginning as as the years started progressing, the lines outside of the house started becoming longer and longer.

And sometimes they could stretch all the way down the walk, turn to the left or the right, and then go down half or a whole block.

And people would wait in those lines to get all the way up to to get a chance to get, you know, some of that one of those those full size candy bars.

Now, my mom was the gracious, loving one.

My dad was the logistics guy.

So my dad is always part of that same thing.

But there's my dad.

There's my mom saying, come in, come in here.

Is my dad taking taking, you know, taking stock.

And my dad would say, Now, wait a minute, you've been here before.

You were already here, weren't you?

And then they would say yes, because he and he's the softest guy in the world.

But still, you know, he's a little the little tyke.

And here's my dad and my mom's like oh Nafe, let him have another one.

Right.

So but I'm telling you that what happens is over the years, it has become such a such a heartfelt tradition that it continues to be the a destination place for Halloween for so many children.

The people, the crowds, they didn't come from the the the neighborhood.

They came from all over town.

This has been going on for 40 years.

So it was a well established that the Alick's were good people, that they would be generous with us and they were kind to everybody who came.

Kids, all kind of kids, all kind of parents came and they were just as inviting as you will ever find hospitality for the Halloween evening.

I like to know exactly how patients are being treated.

Being that I have been out there in so long.

But it keeps me knowing what the technicians are doing and and what how the people are.

Because a lot of these are our customers of mine in the past that's still with us.

So I love it.

They taught me a lot of things.

One of the things that they taught me was, to be the best, to do your best every day can always get better and better each day.

And each day you try to better the day before.

So it's it's been a nice stepping steppingstone for me.

Hi.

How are you?

How you doing?

I'm doing wonderful.

Do I need to wear a mask?

No, we're okay with that.

You're okay for us.

And I just need to pick up the equipment and bring it in, if that's okay.

Yes, that's fine.

That's.

That's fine.

Okay.

All righty.

God needs for us to be caring.

she doesn't hold back.

Not at all.

I think about the Jeannine, I always believe, too, you don't need to be the most powerful person in this planet to make a difference in people's life choice.

You need to be caring and loving toward people.

I remember the first evening that they came to our house, like constantly.

She was coming to the kitchen and offering me to help me, even though we preparing the food or clean up the dishes.

And I was looking at this beautiful, elegant woman that it could be my mom's age and constantly offering to help me with something.

And then I was very impressed with her because she was constantly wants to help and honest, I just fell in love with that.

And thing about Jeannine, which I truly, truly inspired, is she has this great, generous generosity.

She just is unconditional gift.

Just keep giving and giving and obviously, that makes Mr. Alick nervous, worried by that.

But she has this unbelievable gift just that was the most beautiful impression I get.

And she reminds me, as I said, I do not wish to exaggerate.

She's really remind me of Mother Teresa.

She reminds me of Gandhi.

She reminds me of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

And they have a great deal of compassion and they care about other people.

And about helping other people.

And they've done so much for other people that that no one knows.

And she expects that from her employees as well.

I mean, it's not it's not just something that she says.

It's something that she believes and something that she feels and she tries to train everyone, you know, to have that same that idea that treat it as if it was your own family.

so you have to maybe go that extra mile to to be around them, because maybe they just found out that they have a parent who's who's dying or a child who has a health problem.

I mean, there's no there's no age thing on health problems, you know, and and it's it's tough.

But she she really expects that they would have in services in the mornings on Thursday mornings and she would always talk about that you have to treat these people like it's your mother or your father, you know, or your child.

She wants that.

She over the years, the Middle East has been going on through turmoil and encountered through our families living there and I myself, as I lived in that area.

So we kind of feel connected to the people there.

And I get to hear about what's going on as firsthand knowing from whether it's my family or the distant family of how things are happening there.

So we hear about the the refugees and and the needs that are kind of fairly for simple things.

People just need their daily clothing, food, shelter, And it touched me when Jeannine was very interested in learning about what can I do to help.

And my first encounter with her when we were really trying to get clothing and and sending basically material for her people just to help them out she provided me with with bags to send over I was amazed by her kindness, by her approach and how humbled she is and the willingness that she wanted to help in any shape that was not the only time that I encountered her afterwards, it reached out to she donated money.

Then she then we went on a medical mission and she was very interested in helping out with medical equipment.

And the list goes on and on and on.

She's she's very genuine.

She's who walk into a hospital, they're not feeling well.

They may need surgery, which is very scary.

They're coming in through the emergency department there.

They were just in an accident.

They have pain and they don't know why.

They might have just had a heart attack or a stroke.

So hospitals are intense places.

They remind you daily of the frailty of human life, that our bodies are pretty frail and there's this extra layer or that has to do with dignity.

So when you're being served by a home medical, you're not you're not at your best.

You may realize I need a walker now for the rest of my life.

And that's hard.

You're not necessarily happy about it, but you want to live your life with dignity and you want to live your life as strong as you can.

That's what home Medical helps you with.

My father.

Eventually he had Parkinson's.

We were at Alick's Home Medical a lot.

Eventually he went from a walker to a wheelchair.

Nobody wants to be in a wheelchair.

But if you're treated with dignity and you've got a home health care company that can again treat you with dignity, provide you the very best that it can to get you back on your feet, or at least help you be as strong as you can be.

That's really, really crucially important to our community and just to each individual person.

It matters.

And again, that kind of tracks right back to the Alick's family to Jeannine, to the origin, the origin of Alick's Home Medical.

But I think what makes Alick's Home Medical successful is the culture that they instill.

And and that culture is by leading with their hearts.

And so when I think of Jeannine, Mrs. Alick especially, she leads with her heart.

they they have a call calling.

It's a business, but it is a calling for them.

And you feel that in their culture, they have done an incredible job over the period of the years I've been in this town for more than 42 years and I have known them that they have been there for as long as I have been here.

Jeannine, who started this whole thing and she has been working on it for a long time, she also is a social worker.

You know, she has brought so many patients to my office, you know, who happen to be suffering from cancer or who needed a second opinion or who needed a ride to go and needed another person as a supporter.

They bring them.

So they have been way beyond just selling equipment.

They have been part and parcel of the South Bend community.

So as Elkhart community, because they are there also.

So they have provided these services to this area, this, you know, Michiana area.

And at the same time, they have been supporting all other, you know, you know, philanthropic activities in town, whether that is support of an autism center, whether that is a support of, you know, hospice.

really makes these people legends.

They are legend, not just because they are selling equipment and they are legends because they make sure that the people in need are well taken care.

At the same time, they are continuously supporting the town, the growth of the town and making sure that South Bend, Mishawaka, as well as Elkhart, it stays in a way that the needs of our people are well taken care.

Patients can choose to use whatever home medical services that they deem that they need.

And it's always a patient choice.

But what we find is patients frequently choose Alick's based on the reputation and based on that commitment that they have to serve those in need and the way they do that.

The philosophy of Alick's Home Medical it's been a winning combination between her willingness to learn the business and to not be afraid to be cutting edge and doing things that no one else was doing for example helping their customers with the paperwork Getting things pre-approved for the doctor and through medicare so they did not have to flip the bill for the entire whatever it might be the hospital bed or whatever other rehabilitation piece of equipment and only have to pay a portion of that that has made a huge difference.

This is why we're here to help them.

And we want to And if it wasn't done well or right, they did it or they did something else until these people were happy or comfortable or that was the best you could do.

Because why be in this business if you're not going to treat them like they were your family?

whenever anybody is in need, she she reaches out to them a lot of that falls from the tree down to us also.

And as a result of we also end up being a giving person.

not like anyone I've ever known and they have this great sense of their own family.

But it's like they encompass everybody as their family.

They've touched a lot of people's lives.

And and we're able to do that, especially in a way everybody has somebody that has a medical issue in one way or another.

I think one of the things they are really remarkable about it is they all the time try the ways to help somebody if he really needs like home equipment.

I think what makes them exceptional is just they truly embody who they are.

They don't let go of their values.

They really live what they believe and they don't let go of family and friends.

It's their commitment to the Michiana community.

caring is not just a word, it's an action.

If you do it from your heart, you don't do it because of what you're going to get.

You do it because you're going to have a blessing.

You may not know when, but you're going to have one and you're going to experience that Legends of Michiana Jeannine and Nafe Alick, Compassionate, Generous and Caring is brought to you by and by.

Thank you.

I love that picture.

Huh?

I love that picture.

Well, look how good you look.

That's why we both look nice.

Young ought to be young again.

Don't let it fly by.

this book was given to us by our children for our 50th year anniversary, and they went to our home.

We weren't there and they picked pictures that they thought were meaningful and beautiful of our 50 years together.

This is the love story of Nafe and Jeannine Alick And this picture says, These hands held each other down the aisle, carried four children, applauded their accomplishments and held them through, disappoint met.

These hands, have filled prescriptions, help the sick and taken care of customers.

These hands have waved.

Hello to friends and goodbye to their parents.

These hands have endured.

Grandchildren have welcomed grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

They have flown around the world.

After 50 years, these hands always came back to hold each other.

Thank you, God.

We did.

This was me and my father when he walked me down the aisle and they for name after we got married.

Thank God.

And these are Nafe and his brothers, on our wedding reception night.

My mother.

And this is my mother and father in law.

They were wonderful.

Wonderful.

And my parents with us at the wedding reception.

There were about 1000 people at our reception because I told you my mom was one of ten children and everything came here was a picture of our wedding cake.

Looked like the leaning tower of Pizza.

And this is our first child.

Yasmain and our son Nafe, our second.

And this is them together.

Picture of my husband.

We were seeing the Army, John F Kennedy, a wonderful president, activated the reserves and took him to active duty, and Nafe was one of them.

Our third child, Camille, was born in 1965 and now there were five of us.

But in 1967, along came Melissa and Baby made six.

And here their four children with us.

And here's our house on Strong Avenue.

We bought that house in 1968, and I said we could live there forever.

Our children could grow up there and did they?

Yeah, we still own that house and we still go back to it.

Since the 1968.

And it says, Time passes, things changed, seasons come and go.

But at 905 Strong love always stays the same.

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