WEISHAR, Christine Weishar

Passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener on Thursday September 4 2025 in her 47th year after a courageous battle with lung cancer.

Seldom intimidated by much in the world, Christine took on anything that came her way with strength and determination while still making the people close to her know that they are loved.

Born and raised on the family farm outside of Chepstow, Christine was the baby sister with all the tight curly hair. In her younger days, she could be found outside playing sports (baseball, in particular), picking stones in the fields, bottle feeding baby calves, and collecting sap in the bush for maple syrup. As she grew older, she became an avid baseball player (and a good one at that!), and she loved camping, mushball and baseball tournaments, kayaking and playing euchre (especially at the big extended family gatherings, which she never missed). She was employed at Formosa Brewery and then at Besters Sawmill.

Christine made life look easy; she loved to prove that she could do things on her own, whether it was to fix a leaky sink or to figure out what went wrong on someone’s iPhone (mostly Eileen’s). She enjoyed demolition and renovation projects (she could have a box of flooring down and clicked in place in the time it would take others to read the directions) as much as quiet moments with young nieces and nephews to colour with them. She was quick to offer help to whomever needed it – she always had a way of lightening someone else’s load.

When Murray came into her life, she was full of smiles. They were married in September 2003. Their life together carried the same sense of ease. All Christine and Murray needed was a long stretch of highway on a sunny (that sometimes turned rainy) day. Whether they were headed to Red Bay for the long weekend, Port Dover on Friday the 13th, or just making the rounds to visit friends or family, one thing was certain: if it wasn’t snowing, they were on their motorcycles.

With Murray, Christine became an avid hunter. Fond memories include her saying “we got nothing,” but also “I got one!,” or “I got the big one,” after a successful day out hunting. This all coming from a woman who told Murray on their first date that the fact that he hunted “may” be a dealbreaker.

Left heartbroken, but ever changed by her love and generosity are her husband Murray, her mother Eileen, her brothers and sisters Rob (Vanessa), MaryAnne, Lori (Shawn) and Terry (Michelle), her nieces and nephews Craig (Victoria), Greg (Maddie), Rayanne, Brendan, Dana, Nathan, Brady, Emma (Nathan), Katie and Cara, Katelyn, Christina (Rob), Robert, Michael, Ryan, Shawn, Adam, Jenna, Connor (Des), Ethan (Mason), Maeve and Cameron, and grand-nieces and nephews Maverick, Braxton, Brindleigh, Avery and Kallie. She will also be dearly missed by her brothers- and sisters-in-law Brian (Kim), Sandra, Terry (Marg) and Wanda, and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

Christine was predeceased by her father, Jerome (in 1998), her step-dad Bob (in 2022), and grandparents Frank and Margaret Walter and Albert and Leona Graf.

In the face of a disease that was swift and relentless, she remained firm in her faith and devoted to the love of her life.

Friends and relatives are invited to visitation from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at Cameron’s in Walkerton. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 11, 2025, at Mary Immaculate Church, Chepstow. Reception to follow at Chepstow Lion’s Park.

Interment in Mary Immaculate Cemetery, Chepstow.