Brian & Angie Sparks

Brian & Angie Sparks

Angie and Brian Sparks both grew up in the American Midwest, she in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, he in a small Indiana industrial and agricultural town where his father was a longtime auto industry executive.  They both were college accounting majors and became certified public accountants.  He went on to become a corporate tax lawyer and she an accountant at his law firm in St. Louis, where she was responsible for issuing paychecks, which quickly attracted his attention, along with her many other fine attributes. 

Playing hard to get not long after they began dating seriously, Angie left that law firm to become the controller for a prominent banking client.  Brian’s law firm then made the mistake of sending him to San Diego, California during a brutally cold Midwestern winter.  They quickly realized it was not cold everywhere in winter.  They married soon thereafter (25 years ago) and satisfied their newfound desire for year round warmth by relocating to Florida where Brian transitioned his legal practice to estate and asset protection planning. 

Following another stint in the financial services industry, Angie stayed home after the birth of their first of two sons.  Those sons, Alex and Michael, both in college now, were uninspired by their parents’ joint accounting and Brian’s legal careers.  Instead, they are pursuing mechanical engineering and fine arts degrees, respectively.  Angie and Brian also have a water loving Labrador Retriever named Bailey, who thinks she is a lapdog. 

Recreationally, Angie is a very accomplished golfer and Brian pursues various outdoor interests from golf to geology to wilderness emergency medicine.  The accompanying photograph of them was taken this May while they visited the windy rim of Vesuvius and just before Brian descended into the crater.  Despite Angie’s foretelling of his demise, he survived.