Let’s give Charles “Chaz” Yasterzemski 1 more act of love!

Charles “Chaz” Yasterzemski (a father, pop, friend, significant other, uncle) succumbed to his pain on October 26, 2024. As one of the two surviving children, I bear the heartache of having to put my own emotions aside and grant his last and final wishes. He was an impeccable person. He helped so many people and truly gave his all to lend his hand to another human being. Especially those suffering from alcohol and drug addiction. He was full of life and love. In 2015 after a life altering medical event he would never be the same. He went into the hospital to have a mass removed from his stomach. Only to later find himself septic due to a perforation in his bladder and his body ultimately filling up with urine. Not only did he lose his bladder and prostate entirely but he also lost his ex wife (who asked for divorce), his successful contracting business, his place to live but most shattering to him was that he lost his near 20 years of sobriety. But what would effect him the most was the relationships with some of the people he valued that disappeared with the rest of his world. He still picked himself up. He got back up and did what he knows how… he survived. Two beautiful influences and forms of love came from all the darkness and that was Bella (his fur baby) and Nadine (his other half). A few years ago he was diagnosed with kidney failure and receiving dialysis. He started to feel so much better. However, after my brother passed away in August 2024, I could sense he would not emerge the same from this heartache. And he didn’t. My brother passed away 8/16/24 and my hero and biggest fan passed 10/26/24. I believe his heart was truly irreparably broken. His body slowly failed little by little. His kidneys continued to fail, his liver was failing, he had sepsis again, pneumonia, they found spots on his liver and his lungs, and I learned he was feeling suicidal prior to his hospital stay the first week of October. This breaks my heart to even admit.

I want to honor his wishes by having him cremated and a 1 hour service on 11/21/24 @ Hancock Funeral Home 11am. I contemplated creating this fundraiser because it makes me feel bad to ask others to share this financial burden with me. However I have to ask for help because after my brothers services 3 months ago I can surely use some help. I also want to have a luncheon after the service for everyone to enjoy. And if there is any money left I will use it towards the removal and storage of his property and Philadelphia Phillies memorabilia he collected through the years. He always told me to sell it if anything happened to him. It’s all well documented and written in a book with pictures of every item. However, I told him then I would never sell it. Unless I have no other choice but for now I refuse to get rid of it. So please help me show him one last act of love and kindness by contributing ANYTHING YOU CAN to his services. I also want to take a chance to thank ALL OF YOU WHO SHOWED UP FOR HIM IN HIS LAST DAYS. I am so full of gratitude that his hospital room stayed busy with visitors until his last breath. I can not find the words for each and every one of you who made him feel more loved by just stopping in and saying hi. I needed that for him to move on. I needed for him to not feel so alone. So to all of you I want to recognize your acts of kindness and thank you deeply. Thank you all!