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Mark and Jenn Kirkpatrick
Hinkle ’00 inside Olive+Oak.
successful restaurant into aren’t going to always go the way
four. In addition to Olive+Oak, you planned, and that’s when you ALUMNAE ENTREPRENEUR
the two families own The learn so much about yourself,” Jenn If there is one
Clover & the Bee, Perennial on said. “When I graduated from Cor “
Lockwood, and O+O Pizza – all Jesu, I had no idea I was going thing I can
in downtown Webster Groves. to marry a man with the dream
In 2019, Olive+Oak outgrew its of owning a restaurant, or that I guarantee
original location, and moved into would lose a son to CHD. But those in life, it is
a much larger space. And the walls experiences resulted in my passions,
of the critically acclaimed (and and I’ve built a life around them.” that things
almost always booked) restaurant She’s built a life dedicated to
are covered in pictures of the boys Sharing the Love of the Heart of aren't going
whose names are on the door. Christ – all in her son’s name. to always go
“Of all the restaurants, Olive+Oak “What makes it all worth it – the
will always be my favorite because restaurants and the foundation the way you
it was our first one and is named – is having a reason to talk
after our boys,” Jenn said. “It is about Ollie and tell our story.” planned, and
a restaurant built on love.” that's when
The love she felt in the days
after Ollie passed. The love she To learn more about you learn so
found when she met Mark as a the Ollie Hinkle Heart
college student. The love that Foundation visit much about
raised her – and the Love of yourself.
the Heart of Christ she learned www.theohhf.org or -JENN KIRKPATRICK HINKLE '00 ”
about as a student at Cor Jesu. email info@theohhf.org.
“If there is one thing I can
guarantee in life, it is that things
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