Christopher John Manente

Christopher was born on July 2, 2001 in Mountain View, California, and moved to Sudbury with his family on his first birthday. Chris touched many lives through his involvement in various activities in Sudbury and at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, including Symphonic Orchestra, Select Jazz Combo, Debate Team, Lacrosse and Boy Scouts. He was also a National Merit Scholarship finalist.

Chris was kind-hearted and intelligent, passionate about music, and gifted in mathematics and science. He was a skilled bass guitarist and took every opportunity he could to make music with others. His proudest moment was when he received the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award.

He had a deep appreciation of nature and was a proud Eagle Scout. Chris was always thinking of others and designed, built, and installed four ADA accessible benches along the boardwalk of the Red Maple Trail in the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in order to ensure guests of all abilities could enjoy the outdoors, as he did.

He planned to study biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, after his graduation this year.

Beloved son of Michael and Melinda (Keyser) Manente; cherished brother of Maddison and Matthew, both of Sudbury; treasured grandson of William (Jr.) and Joan Keyser of Victor, NY, Ralph and Kathleen Manente of Monroe, CT; precious nephew of Mark Keyser and his wife Janette of East Bloomfield, NY, Karen Clausi and her husband Jim of Trumbull, CT; loving cousin of Emily and Allison Clausi of CT, Jonathan Keyser of NY; respected friend to countless peers.

The funeral Mass will be held at 10AM on Saturday, May 25, at Our Lady of Fatima Church, 126 Concord Road, Sudbury. All guests are invited to meet directly at the church.

Visitation will be held at the CHURCH on Friday, May 24, 2019 from 1-3PM and 6-8PM. Memorial gathering with the jazz band in Hurley Hall during visitation; Eagle Scout tribute at 6PM; closing prayer and words of remembrance at 8PM.

To celebrate Chris's life and memory we have set up a charitable scholarship in his name at Lincoln-Sudbury High School Dollars for Scholars (a partnership program through Scholarship America, a 501(c)(3) corporation).

Donations can be sent to: Lincoln-Sudbury Scholarship Fund, PO Box 693, Sudbury, MA 01776. Please make checks payable to: Lincoln-Sudbury Scholarship Fund reference Christopher J. Manente in the memo line.