It was as a boy that Christopher Ylagan picked up guitar through lessons from his father. A love for The Beatles came too. Over the years, Christopher would become a Beatles fiend: He'd grow a collection of anthologies, pick up magazines and merchandise. He’d name his son after John Lennon.
When Paul McCartney’s Freshen Up tour brought him to Vancouver in 2019, Christopher’s wife, Glend, bought tickets as a surprise.
“When Paul came out to the stage the first time, (Christopher) cried and said, ‘Oh my goodness,’” she recalled.
The two were to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary about a month ago on March 17. Instead, that day Glend mourned Christopher’s death at a funeral service. He died in late February after a bout with COVID-19, which Glend believes he contracted in an outbreak that occurred at an adult family home in Bremerton where the two worked, he, as a certified nursing assistant, she as a nurse.