MAX BUDD WEAVER It is with mixed feelings that we announce the passing of Max Budd Weaver-beloved husband, father and grandfather-on September 27, 2017. We are sad because we will greatly miss his companionship and yet we rejoice in the great man he was and in the wonderful life he led. Max was born in Soda Springs, Idaho on February 23, 1926, to Budd David Weaver and Josephine May Cooley, the only son in a family of seven children. At the time of his graduation from high school in 1944, Max was the sole son of a then widowed mother and as such was exempt from military service. However his desire to serve his country was great and that fall, after the crops were in and with the encouragement of his mother, he enlisted in the U. S. Army. After basic and advanced training he was sent to Germany with the occupation forces following WW II. There he met and subsequently married the beautiful Liselotte (Lilo) Schaub whose silk wedding dress was fashioned from a surplus army parachute. Max enjoyed a very successful military career in which he advanced from private at enlistment to the point at which he served as a company commander in Germany and again in Korea where he was awarded the Bronze Star among many other decorations. In the years after the war, Max and Lilo lived in Wayan and Soda Springs, Idaho where they raised their three daughters, Heidi, Jacky and Debbie. When earnings from ranching were not sufficient to support the family, Max took a job with Monsanto in Soda Springs. The leadership talents demonstrated in the Army allowed him to advance from his first assignment as a janitor at Monsanto to a management level in which he was responsible for major mechanical maintenance and repair in the plant. After retirement, Max and Lilo moved first to Salt Lake City and then to Orem, Utah. During this period Lilo decided they should take up line dancing and even though she was legally blind, she could still see just well enough to follow Max's feet if he wore white sneakers. Lilo, on the other hand, wore her fancy red western boots and they had a great time together. It was also in Salt Lake City that Max and Lilo became much more active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and they were subsequently sealed together in the Salt Lake City temple. They enjoyed their time both in Salt Lake City and in Orem where they provided much humanitarian service to others until the time of Lilo's passing in 2004. Four years later in 2008 Max married the lovely Gwenyth May Sewell and their marriage was sealed a year later in the Mt. Timpanogos temple. Max and Gwen enjoyed a number of years together travelling, visiting family, and doing a great deal of genealogy, family history, temple work and serving a two-year service mission. Gwen, who survives him, was a great blessing in Max's life and she made him very happy. At the time of his passing, Max had many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Regardless of whether they were his natural posterity through his marriage to Lilo, or subsequently came into his life by virtue of his marriage to Gwen, Max loved them all. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 on the morning of Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the LDS Chapel at 130 North 400 West in Orem, Utah. Friends may call at that location earlier in the morning from 9:00 to 10:45. Interment will be at 1:00 on Wednesday afternoon at the Fairview Cemetery in Soda Springs, Idaho. Condolences may be offered to the family online at WalkerSanderson.com.