Yvette Alexandre and Lashay Waiters were a young bright couple full of energy, dreams, goals, aspirations, and love. Their lives came to an untimely end in 2017, while they were in their prime. 

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Yvette met LaShay on October 25, 2014 (to be exact) through some of their mutual friends during her freshman year of college. The day that they met held sentimental significance to LaShay; he knew that he wanted to marry Yvette from the first time they met. However, the feeling was not yet mutual. According to friends and mutual acquaintances, Yvette was often standoffish towards LaShay, but that did little to deter him from pursuing his prize. They started out as friends but grew closer for an extended period of time to the extent that their relationship would flourish into nearly inseparable companionship. On January 27, 2015, they made it official to become a couple and that was the beginning for something wonderful. 

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On October 25, 2017, three years later, LaShay invited all their closest friends and family to what Yvette believed was a housewarming party and what Yvette pleasantly learnt was their surprise engagement party. Several weeks later after LaShay’s proposal to Yvette on Wednesday November 22, 2017, the young couple discovered that Yvette was pregnant with what would have been their first child.

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Our Thanksgiving Day started out wonderfully, LaShay and Yvette spent some time with her father and I. We talked about planning their wedding and looked forward to the birth of what would have been our first grandchild. Afterwards everyone went to their prospective places to celebrate and give thanks for things that they were most grateful for. They went to pick up their good friend Schavanni, so he could spend the day with them because his family resides outside of the US. At the end of all the Thanksgiving Day festivities they would make the drive into Tampa to return their friend Schavanni back home. On Thanksgiving night November 23, 2017, While on the way back home, the car that Yvette and LaShay were driving in was struck head on by a wrong way driver on HWY I-75 South. Yvette and LaShay passed away on the morning of Friday November 24, 2017 as a result of the injuries that they sustained in the crash.