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Christopher Edward
In loving memory of
Christopher Edward Pensel, 29 - who lived life to the brim and was a magnet for people who filled his large cup of life with love, humor and kindness - passed away unexpectedly Thursday, January 15, 2015 in his home in San Diego, CA. As a self proclaimed introvert, Christopher couldn't help but light up rooms - not just with his height - but with his winning smile, wit and
sarcasm which naturally drew a crowd. He received his bachelors degree from East Carolina University and traveled extensively. He was a Senior Project Manager at FoxConn. As Christopher joins his beloved brother, Kelly, he leaves behind his mother, Deborah; father, Edward; grandmother, Ruth Bland; aunt, Melinda Toscano; uncle, Wayne and wife, Jeannie and their son, Keith Bland; uncle, Michael Pensel and wife, Margaret and their children, Karah and Aaron, and extended family and many friends all over the world. In addition to all the people who will cherish his memory is his "mole" mate, Katherine Brozowski and pitbull, Pirate.
Viewing will be held Saturday, January 24, 2015 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM at the Center for Spiritual Living, 1550 NE 26th Street, Wilton Manor, FL 33305. Graveside service to immediately follow at 1:45PM at Our Lady Queen of Heaven, 1500 State Road 7, North Lauderdale, FL 33068. Serenity Funeral Home and Cremation has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements (954) 306-2124
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Memories and Condolences
for Christopher PENSEL
Paula
December 31, 2024
Praying
Mom
December 30, 2024
My Dearest Christopher, December 29, 1985 was the happiest day of my life. The day that you were born, you brought so much love, laughter and joy to our lives. You are the most precious son and we will love you forever.
Melinda Toscano
December 30, 2024
My dear Christopher, it was your 39th birthday. I guess I want to keep you young forever. All my love your Aunt Melinda
Melinda Toscano
December 29, 2024
Happy heavenly birthday my dear sweet Nephew. Missing you everyday and loving you today just as much as when your were born 38 years ago.
You will always hold a special place in my heart. I will always love you.
Aunt Melinda
Christopher´s Mom
January 15, 2024
Hey my love, it´s been nine years since you left us. Dad and I think about you every second of every day. All your favorite guys were here again for eight years , John Parker Hawkins, Micheal, Tucker, Zach Wearne, and Samantha Hawkins not mention all of the other friends locally that loved you. Forever in my heart and dad`s heart. Will love you forever until we see you again. I love you Christopher Edward.
Melinda Toscano
December 29, 2023
Today marks yet another birthday - 38 today. You are missed so much not just on special days like your birthday and Christmas but everyday!!
I love you always Christopher dot dot dot Pensel
Aunt Melinda
Mom
January 16, 2023
Loving you was always easy, loosing you is the hardest heartbreak. Forever and always, my Christopher.
Melinda Toscano
January 16, 2023
It doesnt matter how many days or years pass your name will always be spoken, the memories will always be shared and you will always be in our heart. Missing you today and always. Love you my dear sweet nephew.
Aunt Melinda 143
Melinda Toscano
January 15, 2022
As another year passes the thoughts of you are so vivid and clear its like the flood gates have opened. Thinking, remembering and wishing for so much more time with you . My love will never fade as you have a permanent place in my heart that will be there forever. You are dearly missed Christopher, and I will love you always !! Aunt Melinda
Ruth Bland
January 15, 2022
We hold you close within our hearts and there you will remain to walk with us through our life until we meet again. Loving you always Grammy hugs and kisses
Paula
January 16, 2021
Heartbreaking
Melinda Toscano
January 15, 2021
Another year passes but always know you will forever be in our hearts...forever.
Love you always Aunt Melinda
Ruth Bland
January 15, 2021
In memory of my beloved grandson. You will live forever in my heart. I love you always Grammy
Debbie Pensel
January 15, 2021
My Forever Greatest Love, my Christopher. Words can never explain the pain I have in my Heart loosing you. The worst day of my life. I will love you, forever. 143 Mom
My favorite picture of us. I love and miss you very much
Melinda Toscano
January 16, 2020
Debbie Pensel
January 16, 2020
My Dearest Christopher, the days have turned into months, the months to five years. Its still so hard to comprehend, I want you back!! Life is not the same without you, you were our life. Forever and always my love. I love you
Melinda Toscano
December 25, 2019
Dearest Christopher,
Thinking of you today Christmas Day 2019. Its hard to believe its been 5 years since our last Christmas together.
Missing you so much today and always.
Most of all missing the joy and happiness you brought to your mom and dad and our family.
You will always be with us as our hearts will always be with you.
Love you always my dear nephew.
Aunt Melinda 143
Robyn Brennan Marvaso
December 20, 2019
Debbie - I have been scrolling around in Facebook & came across the entries regarding Christopher. My heart breaks for you - I am so very sorry.
Ruth Bland
January 15, 2019
My dearest Christopher
PS. A special brother to Kelly who loved you as much as we do.
Love you Grammy
Melinda Toscano
January 15, 2019
My dear Christopher, not a day we like to remember but a day we must remember. A day that forever changed our lives.
Words can never come close to expressing how much you mean to our entire family. How much you are missed and thought about every day.
You will always be our sweet Angel.
I love and miss you very much.
Aunt Melinda
everytime I see this flower bloom I think of you
Ruth Bland
January 15, 2019
A Special son, a Special grandson, a Special nephew, a Special uncle and a Special friend all share special memories of one so dear.
These special flowers, the last gift you gave to Grammy has chosen this time to bloom.
My love for you will never die and is with me day and night.
My Special grandson much to young was taken from us, only God knows why.
Loving you always your special Grammy
Happy birthday
Melinda Toscano
December 29, 2018
Dearest Christopher
It's the celebration of your birth. I loved you at birth and watched you grow into a beautiful young man. I hold on tight and cherish all the memories.
Wishing you a heavenly birthday. You are loved and missed beyond words can express.
You will always have a place in my heart. I love you Aunt Melinda
My grandson
Ruth Bland
December 29, 2018
Your smiling way and handsome face will always be etched in my memory. Someday I hope to meet someday Inknow not when.
To hold your hand to never part again.
Happy birthday my beloved grandson
I love you always Grammy
Melinda Toscano
December 29, 2018
Melinda Toscano
December 29, 2018
My love, forever, I miss you, always.
Debbie Pensel
December 24, 2018
On this Christmas Eve, 2018, I'm missing you terribly as I do everyday. Our last Christmas, 2014, when you and Kate came with your elf outfits on was priceless. My heart is forever broken, as I know yours is. I know you miss us, as much as we miss you. I love you.. Mom, forever in my heart and always love you, my forever Christopher.
Us, alway, 143
Debbie Pensel
December 24, 2018
My love, my life. On this Christmas Eve, 2018, I can't help but remember when you and Kate were with us in Florida 2014. Your silly, but great elf outfits Christmas Morning were the best!! How I miss you, I struggle everyday, I still can't believe you left me.. I also know how hurt you are that your not here with us. I want you back, although, I know that's not possible. Always remember, how much you are loved, missed, forever in my heart. Loving you always and miss you, everyday. Love MOM 143
Debbie Pensel
January 17, 2018
My Love, My Life, how I miss you!! Your forever, Mom
Ruth Bland
January 17, 2018
January 15th. My Precious Grandson, you never said I'm leaving..you never said goodbye you were gone before we knew it and only God knows why. In life we loved you dearly and death we love you still. Our hearts we hold a place that only you can fill. It broke our hearts to lose you but you didn't go alone a part of us went with you the day God took you home. Your loving Grammy I'll always love you.
Melinda Toscano
January 15, 2018
Dearest Christopher,
Three years ago the lives of your family and friends changed forever. Most of the time we always feel we will see you again soon, we dont take enough pictures, we dont get enough hugs we just take those moments for granted. I wish for one more time I could say to you in person "I love you". It continues to be a struggle every day for those who loved you so dearly. This past weekend your buddies, Fudge, Zack and Michael spend the weekend with your mom and dad showing them how much they love and miss you. They are truly very special guys. I was so happy to be a part of spending that precious time with them.
Your memory will always live in our minds and our hearts forever. As my emotions are getting harder to contain, I just want you to know for all time just how much your aunt loves and misses you. Forever my dear Christopher I love you. Aunt Melinda
Melinda Toscano
December 29, 2017
Dearest Christopher, today marks your 32nd birthday and three years since we saw your smiling face and felt your warm hugs. My dear sweet nephew I miss you beyond any words can ever express. Please always remember you are a part of our soul, heart and thoughts every moment of every day. Sending my love to you today and always. I love you Christopher and always will. Aunt Melinda
Lin Hall
December 29, 2017
Chris, today is your birthday and I know your Mom and Dad are remembering you with all the love in their hearts. Their strength and beautiful memories help to get them through their loss.
Your boy, Pirate and Shelby. ❤
Debbie Pensel
November 22, 2017
My Christopher, it's Thanksgiving eve and I'm thinking about you, as always. Holidays are never the same without you..that includes Thanksgiving and Christmas. I sold all my Christmas decorations and donated all the money I made to your friend, Jeffrey Fisher's foundation, Fishstrong in memory of you. It's a great cause and you will always be remembered, my goal is to never let you be forgotten. I love and miss you, so much, Christopher.. my heart is forever broken with out you. I will continue to talk to you, love you and miss you. Pirate is great, he is so amazing and you would be so proud of him. I let him smell your shirt the other day..he went crazy.. he knew it belonged to his Daddy. Loving you always and forever, Mom
Melinda Toscano
December 24, 2016
Merry Christmas my dear Christopher. I love you and miss you so much. Never forget how special you are to me, I will love you always your Aunt Melinda xxoo
Kimmy
December 19, 2016
Thinking of you Christopher at Christmas time with love. ❤
My forever Christopher
Debbie Pensel
December 14, 2016
Merry Christmas, my forever Christopher. I still struggle everyday missing and loving you. There's so much I will never understand, I love you, that will never change. My heart is broken, I know yours is too. Your on my mind every second of everydaythe days turn into weeks the weeks turn into months. It's now two Christmas's without youI hold you tight in my heart and arms. Your loving Mom, I love you with all my heart. 143
Melinda Toscano
January 1, 2016
Dear Christopher Thinking of you on this New Years day 2016 and missing you beyond words can ever express. But just for you today I will be happy. I will not dwell on thoughts that depress me. If my mind fills with clouds, I will chase them away and fill it with sunshine cause I will be thinking of you and seeing your beautiful smile. Missing you terribly. As my eyes fill up with tears I still find it very hard to accept what is. Love your forever Aunt Melinda
Forever in my heart. 143
debbie pensel
June 13, 2015
Hi my love, everyday I struggle without you. You knew I would...I miss you, terribly. My heart died the day you left me. I know your as sad and heartbroken as we are. As always, I will love you,forever. I'd do anything to bring you back. Forever, Mom 143
Always so happy and loveable!
Melinda Toscano
June 3, 2015
Dear Christopher, not a day goes by that I don't think of you. As I close my eyes I visualize your face and your beautiful smile. I treasure the times we spent together, they are locked inside my heart. For as long as I have those memories we will never be apart. Every night before I sleep I have you in my thoughts and have a prayer for you. I will always love you. Aunt Melinda
Paige Matthews
March 14, 2015
Christopher. I only met you 1 time at your parents house in Cary NC. You were very polite and handsome and happy. I feel I know you through the conversations and pictures I have shared with your Mom from the day I met her. Your love for your parents and memories you gave to them will be with then forever. Thank you for making my friend Debbie the happiest and proudest Mom I have ever met. Please stay close to your parents in memory and their hearts as I know you are and embrace your new home in heaven with the love you did on earth. I so enjoyed seeing your life bloom though your Mom and Dad. Thank you for being that wonderful Son RIP
Marla Barton
February 4, 2015
Hi Christopher! Just wanted to say I was so happy to see you at Christmas this past year again, and to have a nice conservation with you. You went back home and we became facebook firends. I was so happy to be your facebook friend. You seemed so happy that day! I think you definitely were. I know you are still around. I pray you will show your mom and dad in some way through maybe a dream they have that you have not really left. Help them to understand that you had work to do here and it seems like you completed it. May you rest in peace, brother. Love, Marla
Kate Albert/Cardwell
February 1, 2015
Rest in peace young man...your legacy lives on in everyone that knows you....though I never knew you I see the great love and cherishing your sweet parents and friends loved you with.You and your brother will Always be there with your parents.prayers for them always.
Beverly Adams
February 1, 2015
RIP Christopher
Sherry Luffman
January 31, 2015
So very sorry for your loss, Debbie & Ed. My heart hurts for both of you every day. My only son's name is Christopher & every time I see him I hug him for both of our son's. May your wonderful memories hold you over until you are together again. There is no set time for grieving & never let anyone tell you different. Take care of each other <3
Melinda Toscano
January 30, 2015
My beloved nephew, words will never express the love and admiration I have for you. I don't know of any son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin or friend who was loved more than you. The hole in our broken hearts is immeasurable and our tears could fill the ocean. Rest in peace our angel. Your loving smile and memories will always bring a smile to those left behind. I will love you forever and wish for so much more... Aunt Melinda
January 29, 2015
Christopher was a sweet, young man whose life ended too soon. He was the light of his mom and dad's life and he will surely be missed. His many friends and acquaintances loved him. He always had a big smile no matter what he was doing. RIP Christopher.
Beverly Adams
January 29, 2015
Christopher, you will always remain "the apple" of your mum and dad's eye. Your mum's eyes shone when she spoke of you; your dad's chest became bigger when he spoke of you. Look over them with love until you, your brother and they are once more together.
Debbie Pensel
January 29, 2015
Your bright eyes. You huge heart, your smile, your entire presents made everyone fall in love with you!!! From across the world they cared and loved you. No one cared and loved you like your Mom and Dad!! I know you loved us..your Mommy and Daddy. That day was so unexpected and we were in shock.. as we still are. Forever and always our predious SON, Christopher.. We will love you forever and always. I will see you again with open arms. Until then, your forever loving MOM. Needless to say... My heart in broker but my extreme love will always be with you. All my love Mom
January 29, 2015
Our sympathy and love go out to you. Debbie and Ed may your special memories of Christopher be a great source of comfort. I know you will find ways to celebrate the memory of your devoted son. I love thinking about Christina and Christopher playing up on the third floor. He was always smiling and so kind. Sending lots of love. Paula and Gary Jackson
Debbie Pensel
January 29, 2015
You will always be the brightest light in our life. Our hearts are broken, a void that will never mend. You were Dads and Moms everything..we worshipped, cherished and loved you beyond words. I know your very sad, too, we know how much you loved us. My Son, my Christopher, how do I go on without you? Forever in my heart. My life my heart belongs to you, my love. 143 always
Brandon Nance
January 22, 2015
So sorry to hear about your loss. I sometimes spoke with Chris regarding the loss of both our siblings but never did I think he would leave the earth this soon. As one Pirate from another - Rest in Peace.
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