Obituary & Final Thoughts

February 8th, 2021

The funeral is almost here. I am missing the hugs, kisses, and quiet touches. I am missing the comfort of just knowing that she is home or just simply being in her presence. I look at her favorite spot at the breakfast table where she liked to sit and stitch, bead, paint rocks and acorns. She isn’t there..

 

My family will come together sometime after Chris’s funeral to travel to a special place to scatter ashes. We will wait until we have our mother’s ashes (DOD 2019) from the UTSW Willed Body Program and take those along with our father’s (DOD 2010) and Chris’s ashes to an area near Brownsville, Texas. My sisters, Maritza and Sabina, my brother Rick and myself plan to scatter their ashes on Boca Chica Beach, between South Padre Island and the Rio Grande River. (This is where SpaceX builds and launches their rockets.) That beach was the joy of my parents and their boxers and the same for Chris and me. The boxers would run and splash, Chris would beach comb and I would swim. Sunsets, counting hawks, studying birds and collecting shells refreshed and rejuvenated us. It’s the perfect place for their ashes.

 

Know that it has been very special to hear from all of you.

Obituary

Christine Harkin Overberg, loving wife of 39 years, passed away on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at the age of 81. Chris was born on October 8, 1939, in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Central Catholic High School, now Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1956. She went on to study nursing at St. Anthony School of Nursing in Oklahoma City.


She had one son, Anthony Witkowski III, with her first husband, Anthony Witkowski Jr. After Anthony Witkowski Jr. passed away Chris attended TWU and became an occupational therapist. In 1982, she married Ron Overberg and they built a nutritional consulting business together in Dallas, Texas.  Chris had a green thumb; always trading and giving away plants from her flower beds. She was also an accomplished "beader". Many of her family and friends cherish the earrings, bracelets, and pendants that she created.

“My Memories of Chris” can be found at www.nutriwellness.com.


Chris was preceded in death by her father and mother, Jim and Florence Harkin, and her son Anthony Witkowski. She is survived by her husband Ron, three brothers (Ken, John, and Tom Harkin), three nephews, a niece, many cousins, and her beloved boxer Beau.


A funeral mass is scheduled for February 12, 12PM, at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Richardson. The mass will also be live streamed via Facebook on the church’s Facebook page.


In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the North Texas Food Bank in Chris’s name.
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