Karen Pence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pence

>daughter of Lillian (née Hacker; 1931–2004) and John M. Batten (1931/1932–1988), a United Airlines official.

raised mainly by mother (Lillian) and step father, (Bernard Barcio)

(mother died in 2004) http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Lillian-R.-Barcio-89232475

(real father died in 1988)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Sampler

>Publisher and journalist Lillian Rose Barcio founded The Village Sampler, served as the newspaper's editor in chief, and along with her husband, Bernard F. Barcio, was a founding partner of its publishing company, BLB Enterprises, Inc.

>Karen Pence’s secret first marriage

>http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/305457/karen-pence-secret-marriage-karen-whitaker-mike-pence-indiana/ (now wiped)

https://archive.fo/V9HGN

step father Bernard Barcio in an interest cat

>famous as a latin teacher in Indiana/Indianapolis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeiiana,_Inc.

>Pompeiiana, Inc. was a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the study of Latin at the secondary school level.

nearly fully archived (PDFs) at https://pompeiiana.blogspot.com/

this publication has interesting cover art and goes through several phases, during the 80s/90s it was in a tabloid like format but did't look into the PDFs much at all

step father B.B. is also famous for "The National Catapult Contest"

>The National Catapult Contest was an annual, national competition held between 1966 and 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana, which, over the course of its history, led to the creation of more than 100 modern catapults.

so Roman LARP'ing for real

>docu on catapult contest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9cbobqXMA

there is also a book on google books about the catapults and competition

>go to books.google.com and search for "Catapult Design, Construction & Competition"

Despite all of this information, the circumstances of her meeting Mike Pence and their courting is not clear in the wikipedia article

>Karen met Mike Pence while she was playing guitar at Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church (https://www.yelp.com/biz/st-thomas-aquinas-church-indianapolis), a Catholic church they both attended.

(from the yelp link)

>As you can read from the tips, they also sponsor SausageFest and have an attached elementary school.

>The church is located across the street from the Governor's Mansion.

https://eu.indystar.com/story/life/2013/12/12/karen-pence-is-right-at-home/3997289/

>In the mid-1980s, she was teaching shop at the Orchard School and playing guitar at Mass at

>St. Thomas Aquinas. One day Mike Pence came up after church and they chatted. Turns out

>Karen's sister and he were in law school together.

(Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law)

still have not found out much info on their conversion (they got married as Catholics, not sure if it was in a Church tho). in the indy start article she has some interesting skills it seems. just following the wives, hope this gives some more retards a start.