Max Weltens

Max Weltens, Jr., age 46, was called home to heaven on July 27, 2018, after courageously fighting esophageal adenocarcinoma for a year and a half. He was born July 10, 1972 in San Antonio, Texas to Max Weltens, Sr. and Virginia Estrada Weltens. On August 7, 1993, Max married his high school sweetheart, Krishna Vander Zee, and together they had seven children. After their graduations from Texas A&M in College Station, they moved back to the Texas Hill Country in 1995 to start and raise their family. He was an amazing husband, father, brother, son and friend who will be deeply missed by his family and all who love him.\r\n \r\nIn 1996 Max began the career he loved with the San Antonio Fire Department, as a firefighter and paramedic. He enjoyed spending his free time with his family and participating in church activities. He was an active member of the Knights of Columbus and deeply loved growing in faith through A.C.T.S. retreats, as a retreatant and a leader. He deeply loved his Catholic faith and spent countless hours learning the history of his faith so that he could share it with others. Max lived out his love for Jesus Christ with his devotion to love and serve others in all that he did. \r\n \r\nMax is survived by his wife of 25 years, Krishna Weltens, daughters Emery Katherine and Anisa Therese, sons Ethan Max and his wife Clare, Isaac Louis, Aidan Kolbe, and Andre Charles, his mother Jeannie Weltens, brother Brian and wife Melani Weltens, sister Deborah and husband Ron Zinsmeister, sister Maureen and fiancé Brad Guinn, brother Mark Weltens, brother-in-law Jacob and wife Chantry Vander Zee, sister-in-law Tasha and husband Barry Carter, sister-in-law Coe Vander Zee, father and mother-in-law, Russ and Kathleen Vander Zee, and twelve nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his son, Asher Stephen Weltens, father, Max Weltens, Sr., and grandparents' Ramona and Louis Estrada; Edward and Frances Weltens. \r\n \r\nPlease join us in celebrating his life at his funeral Mass, Thursday, August 2, at 10:00 a.m., Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Helotes, Texas. There will also be a rosary for Max on Wednesday August 1, 6:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe. Following the Mass, burial will be at the new St. Stanislaus Catholic Church cemetery on Highway 1077 in Bandera. \r\n\r\nPallbearers for Max are Raegan Mazurek of Bandera, Mike Tarr of Bandera, Jim Pistone of Pipe Creek, Scott Giffen of College Station, Joseph Casarez of San Antonio, Jake Mendiola of Leon Springs, Hunter Arnold of San Antonio and Jesse Renteria of San Antonio. Honorary pallbearers are his brothers and sisters in the San Antonio Fire Department and brothers from the Saint Anthony High School class of 1990. \r\n\r\nIn lieu of flowers, please consider donating in Max's memory to the St. Stanislaus St. Vincent de Paul Society for the poor of Bandera, Texas through the parish office 830-460-4712. \r\n\r\nCondolences for Max can be left at www.grimesfuneralchapels.com.\r\n\r\nFuneral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Bandera. \r\n