CHRISTOPHER WELT

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In his Memory

He loved music and worked as a Dj

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He was working so hard in his Black kight

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It was his pride

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Friday, June 7, 2002
Woodstock motorcyclist dies in crash with truck
Christopher Welt, 26, was remembered as quiet and shy except around friends.
By JENNIFER MCGREGOR, Free Press Reporter

A Woodstock man who died early yesterday in a motorcycle accident was remembered by his family as being quiet and shy except when he was around friends.
Christopher Welt, 26, died after colliding with a truck on Nellis Street in Woodstock.
"Everything was going right for him," said his father, Robert Welt of London. Christopher Welt was an auto mechanic apprentice and had just finished the first part of the course at Fanshawe College.
He had a B average and was apprenticing at Frank Bodnar Woodstock Ltd., an automotive repair shop in Woodstock.
Welt was living with his sister Kimberly, 22, her husband Brian McConkey, his nephew Kurtis, 4, and his five-month-old niece Jaden in Woodstock.
"We were close since birth," said Kimberly.
They went to high school together at Huron Park secondary in Woodstock and grew up in Innerkip.
Her last memory of Christopher was of him talking and playing with his nephew Kurtis. "Kurtis always liked his motorcycle," she said.
Laughing and having a good time were things he enjoyed, said his sister, especially with his friends.
"He just liked to have fun in general," she said.
Robert Welt said his son got his motorcycle licence when he was 16 and he had never had an accident.
Welt was heading east on Nellis Street around 12:15 a.m. when he hit the back of a parked tractor trailer after rounding a curve, Oxford community police said.
A service is planned tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Longworth RD Funeral Home Ltd., 845 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock. Visitation is scheduled today from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Welt is survived by his father and stepmother, Mary, his mother, Lona Kaufman, and her husband, Earl, of Innerkip, his sister, Kimberly, and her husband, Brian, and their children, Kurtis and Jaden.