http://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/article_a1c9e2b8-6fcf-11ea-850e-338bfc0d412b.htmlAdolph (T.J.) Mendez died Thursday afternoon at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin from complications of the COVID-19 virus, according to his family. He was 44.
Mendez was born in San Antonio and lived in New Braunfels for the last 14 years.
Brenda Johnson, Mendez’s daughter, said her father was tested last week for the coronavirus and received a positive diagnosis on Tuesday.
Angela Mendez said her husband was a healthy man who didn’t smoke or drink. He worked out, ate healthy and took vitamins every day, she said.
She said her father had been “perfectly healthy†and had no underlying health conditions.
"You hear that the people who die are older or have previous health conditions but he was neither and the virus took him down hard,†she said. "It can happen to anyone, it’s not just a story that happens to people across the world. It’s here and it’s real and it can kill anyone, just like it did my husband."