Christopher S. Parrette
1963 - 2014
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Diane Louise Wahlberg posted a condolence
Thursday, March 14, 2024
My dearest Christopher I wish you a Happy Heavenly Birthday. I miss you ttoday and every day. I love you so much and wish you were here to celebrate your special day. Love you, Mom
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diane wahlberg posted a condolence
Sunday, January 7, 2024
My dear Christopher.10 years ago I witnessed Jesus coming to take you to heaven. There hasn't been a day that I have not missed you. I am blessed to have precious memories to comfort me. I know you are with me and that is such a blessing. I love and miss you every day. Mom
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Diane Louise Wahlberg posted a condolence
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Happy 60th Birthday. We are celebrating you on this special.day.
White roses for you on my desk. Miss you today and every day.
I love you, Mom
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Diane Louise Wahlberg posted a condolence
Saturday, January 7, 2023
My dear Christopher it is 9 years since you went with Jesus to Heaven.
I miss you every day. Wish you were here to play with our beautiful little boys.
They are such a blessing to our lives.
I love you
Mom
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Monday, March 14, 2022
Happy Heavenly Birthday. Have roses on my desk to celebrate you and your special day..Cherish my memories of you, they comfort me. Miss you today and every day. Sending you love and hugs. Mom
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Friday, January 7, 2022
It has been 8 years since you went to your heavenly home. The amazing memories bring me comfort. You are with me every day. I miss you more than anyone will ever know. I love you today, tomorrow and forever, Mom
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Sunday, March 14, 2021
HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY Christopher. Wish you were here to celebrate your special day.
Miss you and love you. Mom
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Thursday, January 7, 2021
My beloved Christopher. Seven years ago you closed your eyes for the final time and
went with Jesus to your eternal rest. You are with me every day. I love you and miss you
Forever in my heart. Mom
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Diane Wahlberg posted a symbolic gesture
Saturday, March 14, 2020
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Happy Birthday Christopher, my amazing son. I love you and miss you. Mom
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Diane Wahlberg lit a candle
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
My beloved Christopher. There isn't a day that passes that I don't miss you.
Forever in my heart, thoughts and prayers. I love you Mom
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Happy Birthday Christopher. You are with me today and every day.
I miss you and love you.
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Monday, January 7, 2019
My beloved Christopher. It has been 5 years since Jesus came to take
you to live with him. There isn't a day that passes that you aren't with me.
Many precious memories that comfort me but I so miss having you here.
I love you, my son. You are forever in my heart and prayers.
Mom
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Sandi Parrette posted a condolence
Friday, January 4, 2019
Thinking of you today and can’t imagine that 5 years have past. I love you still today and miss you everyday.
Until we meet again,
❤️
Sandi
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Sandi Parrette posted a condolence
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Happy Birthday Chris. Forever in my heart.
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Diane Wahlberg posted a condolence
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Happy Birthday Chris. You are always with me. I miss you and love you.
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Sandi Snively Parrette posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Happy Valentines Day my love....thinking of you today and how very special you always made this day.
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Sandi Snively Parrette uploaded photo(s)
Sunday, January 7, 2018
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Sandi Snively Parrette posted a condolence
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Missing you still as I think of this day that you left us. So impossible to think another year is passing. There is such a void in my life that you have left. I pray you are at peace in heaven with the girls running in fields, chasing squirrels with endless energy and with lungs full, smiling that beautiful smile that lights up the space.
All my love....
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Sandi Snively Parrette posted a condolence
Sunday, January 1, 2017
have a small glimpse of the Christopher I knew and Loved.
I wanted to begin with a poem....
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
I knew you...
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore
(Both):
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good...
I met Chris nearly 16 years ago. He was a bouncer in a sports bar close to the mall I worked in. Friday nights a group of us went after work to hang out. A mutual friend introduced us. He was sharp, dressed to the nines, had a confident presence and frankly was a bit quiet.
I needed to get home to my family and stayed a very short time. I said my goodbyes and he offered me his arm and said "I will walk you to your car.".... Offered me his arm...I mean who does that?
We got to my old broken down van, the door lock gave me trouble and he offered to help, he ended up fixing the lock and offered to get parts to fix it.
I noticed his hands.....strong and able. It was clear that he worked with his hands and that he was strong. He invited me to dinner and insisted he pick me up at home, drove me to Cape. May NJ where we walked and talked all night long.
At one point he picked up a piece of card board put it on the sand and carried me to the oceans edge.
He then handed me a wildflower nosegay and said " happy Mothers Day"
He had picked WITH those hands
Wow, what a beginning.
We grew to love one another....we started to blend our lives. I had just went thru a difficult divorce. I had four precious children to take care of and simply didn't have the money or resources to do it all. He started right away to see how he could help....he began to make lists of things I needed done...to the car, to the yard, to the house and began to take on projects....with those hands
To say Chris was complex doesn't really cover it.....he was so complicated.
He was strong and weak.
He could work all night long one day and be weak and fatigued for the next weeks.
He was confident and yet insecure.
He was kind yet could be harsh and requiring.
He was sophisticated yet extremely street smart
He could order expertly from any menu in the most elegant restaurant or drink beer from he back of a truck with anyone.
He had childlike insecurities, questioned intentions, questioned love and questioned sincerity.
He would give hundreds to a homeless man and have no money for himself the next day
He was a master communicator with his eyes, without saying a word he could intimidate yet could look at me from across the room and say he loved me with a glance.
Chris made a imprint on my life I want to share....
I met him as a much younger recently separated woman with four children and a broken heart
A relatively new house that needed repairs
A van that needed to be driven to the junk yard
There was absolutely no way I thought anyone would want to get involved with that.
He decided he wanted to be. Part of our life...we both made mistakes.
I know he had regrets as do I.
Dawn, Mattie and Jon...he loved you and he wanted to be loved by you.
He encouraged me and inspired me to do more and at the same time he was not always happy where that encouragement led me as my work life became more demanding.
I can imagine many not as close to our life would question what our relationship was.
In the most simple form I loved him, he loved me.
We remained strongly connected weather married or divorced.
We shared thousands of hours on the phone, over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.
He was never short on words and worked to figure out how to achieve his ideal life for us all.
The moments we shared that were peaceful and quiet.
Those times he held me in his arms...were beautiful beyond words.
He loved from a very deep place. He loved completely. He loved passionately
He also brought all those depths of emotion to anytime or anyone that disappointed him, didn't meet his expectations.
I can't let this moment pass without remembering his love of Kayla, Kira....they loved him unconditionally and could see past behaviors we could not understand. To see how he loved them and what he would do for them was selfless and beautiful.
1000 years
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid
To fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
(Chorus)
I have died everyday
waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
(Verse 2)
Time stands still
beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything
Take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath,
Every hour has come to this
One step closer
(Chorus)
I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought
Your heart to me
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
One step closer
One step closer
(Chorus)
I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid,
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought
Your heart to me
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
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Oh no, did I get too close oh?
Oh, did I almost see what's really on the inside?
All your insecurities
All the dirty laundry
Never made me blink one time
Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
There is no fear now
Let go and just be free
I will love you unconditionally
Come just as you are to me
Don't need apologies
Know that you are unworthy
I'll take your bad days with your good
Walk through this storm I would
I'd do it all because I love you, I love you
Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
There is no fear now
Let go and just be free
I will love you unconditionally
So open up your heart and just let it begin
Open up your heart, and just let it begin
Open up your heart, and just let it begin
Open up your heart
Acceptance is the key to be
To be truly free
Will you do the same for me?
Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
And there is no fear now
Let go and just be free
'Cause I will love you unconditionally (oh yeah)
I will love you
I will love you
I will love you unconditionally
Read more: Katy Perry - Unconditionally Lyrics | MetroLyrics
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you
Come love me again
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest
Like the mountains in springtime
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses
Come fill me again
To quote John Denver himself, ""Annie's Song" is my most popular song around the world, if not the most famous. It was written after we had been through a particularly difficult time and had come together again, in many ways closer then ever before. We really felt together and much closer from the experiences we'd been through. One day I was skiing, and I'd just finished a run that was totally exhilarating. I skied right down to the lift, got on the chair, and was off and up the mountains again, my thighs burning and still in the process of catching my breath. I looked out at the mountains I love, and the Colorado sky was a blue color you can only see from this altitude-my favorite color, I might add. The deep green of the trees against the white of the snow, the colorful outfits the people were wearing, the sounds if life as it goes over each tower, and birds singing, and laughter, and the smell of the clean, fresh air out there in the wilderness-all those things were going through my mind and it was all beautiful. It filled me completely.
“I began thinking about other things that are like that for me, and my first thought was of the woman I had fallen in love with again, and how she filled me so completely. Then I stared thinking of other things-things in nature. And in the ten minutes it takes to go from the bottom of Bell Mountain lift to the top, I had written “Annie’s Song.” I had the melody in my head, and I knew the chords on the guitar. I skied down to the bottom, of the hill, raced home, picked up my guitar, and played it. Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary said sometimes he didn’t feel so much like the writer, but rather the instrument of that which wants to be written. That’s what this felt like to me. “Annie’s Song” is a song for all lovers and, in its deepest sense, a prayer to the love in us all.”
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Sandi Snively Parrette posted a condolence
Thursday, November 19, 2015
So aware of how very special so much of the moments we shared together were. I can't describe how lonely for you I have been so many days and nights. Your look, your touch, your voice.... Missed everyday. I love you Christopher. I cherish what we shared. My life is forever changed because I knew you. I will never get over you.
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Sandi Parrette posted a condolence
Thursday, February 5, 2015
My dearest Christopher
I miss you desperately and wish you were here healthy, happy and in my arms to share good times and bad. I love you with all that I am. We shared a forever love.
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Cynthia Bramstong Carpenter posted a condolence
Friday, January 31, 2014
Just remember Diane from school. I too have lost a child. In fact 2 of my boys died from blood clots.
I am sorry for your loss.
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