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Dave was born December 19, 1939 in Eunice, Louisiana the third of eight children of Helen Donegan and Joseph H. Pecot, Jr. The family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana where Dave attended Fortier High School and graduated from LSU in January 1963.

Dave and Anne Marie Liles married on September 8, 1962 and they had five children Michelle Kazanjian (John), Renee McKeone (Joe), David, Laura Redman (Steve) and Mark. The families of their children include Mary Beth Kazanjian, Ani Kazanjian, Gina Kazanjian, Christieann Kazanjian, Tasha Kazanjian, Claire McKeone, Pat McKeone, Mara McKeone, Kateri McKeone, Henry Redman and Sam Redman.

Dave worked 21 years for the Eveready Battery Products Division of Union Carbide with nine of those years spend in the countries of Malaysia and Singapore. He and his family lived in Charlotte and Greenville North Carolina, Bennington Vermont and Ohio. He left Union Carbide after moving to Cleveland in 1983 and joined the Nymold Division of Ethyl Molded Products Company as General Manager. In 1988, he joined Weatherchem Corporation as Vice President of Manufacturing retiring in May of 2000.

Dave first considered applying for the diaconate in 1976, after his pastor in Bennington, Vermont encouraged him to become a deacon. That decision was put on hold as he was continually being transferred by Union Carbide until he finally decided to pursue that calling in 1995. Dave attended formation classes at the Center for Pastoral Leadership and was ordained as a permanent deacon in the Diocese of Cleveland on May 23, 1998 by Bishop Anthony Pilla. He was immediately assigned to St. Basil the Great as a Pastoral Minister.

The diaconate has its origins in apostolic times and flourished in the first four centuries of the Church's history. Later for very complex reasons, the diaconate went into a decline until it disappeared from the Church. The Second Vatican Council restored the diaconate as a permanent ministry in the Church.

The diaconate is an ordained ministry within the ministry of the Church. In receiving the Sacrament of Holy Orders the deacon is empowered by the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands to fulfill a particular role in the Church. Ordination is the sacramental differentiation of a Christian within the community of faith so he becomes a unique sign and instrument of what Jesus Christ is for the Church and the Church must be for the sake of Jesus Christ. Deacons are ordained for a distinct ministry in the celebration of the sacraments, the transmission of the word and in the service to the community.

In the Ministry of the Word the deacon's role is a far reaching one. It includes the proclaiming of the Gospel, preaching, catechetical instruction and other forms of teaching, counseling of individuals and families, giving retreats, outreach to the alienated, preparing and processing applications for nullity of marriages, etc. Deacons living and working in secular society have the ability to use the opportunity to bring the Gospel into everyday life.

In the Ministry of Liturgy and Sacraments, the deacons role at the Eucharist proclaims the gospel, voices the needs of the people in the general intercessions, assist in the presentation of the gifts, and is an Ordinary Minister of the Eucharist. The deacon can also perform other liturgical roles such as solemnly baptizing, witnessing marriages, bringing Viaticum to the dying, and presiding over funerals and burials. In addition to these roles, he can preside over Liturgies of the Word, Communion Services, Liturgies of the Hours, exposition and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, lead non-sacramental reconciliation services, conduct prayer services, pray with the sick and dying and administer certain of the Church's sacramentals such as blessing holy objects and homes.

In the Ministry of Service the deacons role involves a broad range of activities and is deliberately vague and open by intent. Thus deacons find themselves in ministry in hospitals, prisons, within the community nursing homes, ministering to the divorced and separated and in various other roles within the community. Dave in his ministry serves by praying for those with various needs, visits to the homebound, to those in hospitals, and visits to parishioners when they have any need and request his presence.

In his spare time Dave enjoys golf, his wife, kids and grandkids.