Christine Renee Hibbs Waite

1949-2023

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! It is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

This was Chris’s favorite Shakespearean sonnet. We use words every day, and some people can add a richness and depth to those words. That was Chris; she had a love of books and the written word. It directed her career and was a lifelong influence in her personal life.

The memories of Chris’s life will be kept by her son Kip (Jessica), granddaughter Ripley, partner Jeff, brothers Steve (Katherine), Gary (Martha), Jeff (Karen), niece Andrea, and nephews Christopher, McKee, Mark, and Ciardan.

A gathering of family and friends will be held on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel from 1-3 p.m.