Reverend of the American Catholic Church in Nevada, an independent church that does not frown upon homosexuality or female clergy.

Dicotignano regularly performed holy unions for gay couples from all over the country before gay marriage was legalized.

Ralph Vandersnick was born March 16, 1927 in Annawan, Illinois, a small town that was 150 miles from Chicago, Illinois. His mother died when he was five, and his family moved to Atkinson, Illinois in 1934. He grew up in the Great Depression and was drafted into World War II when he was 17, missing high school graduation by a year.