Obituary: Christopher H. Corbett
SOUTH PORTLAND - “Go as the way opens,” was the oft-spoken advice of Christopher Hawley Corbett, who lived fully and passed .
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Christopher H. Corbett
SOUTH PORTLAND – “Go as the way opens,” was the oft-spoken advice of Christopher Hawley Corbett, who lived fully and passed away peacefully in South Portland on June 22, 2021, his 80th birthday, surrounded by loving family, a year and a half after a diagnosis of ALS.
Chris was raised in Montclair, N.J., the third of four children, a proud Eagle Scout, an avid sailor, and a lifetime lover of the outdoors. As a young man, he discovered music, playing trombone in a 17-piece jazz big band, guitar and vocals in a classic 1950’s rock band, and thereafter managing to join every impromptu sing-along or porch jamboree he could find making music and encouraging merriment around campfires, at jazz bars, and in the living rooms of a wide network of friends. As he saw it, music was a wellsprin