On Thursday evening, December 29 ^th , 2022, Maria Natividad Vega Balderas, loving mother and Widow passed away peacefully at the age of 85. She was born in Regalado, Texas on June 24, 1937.

She was known as "Tive" by family and friends.  She was raised in San Benito, Texas and was the oldest of 8 children to Inocencio and Maria Louisa Gomez Vega. She married her husband Carlos Balderas Sr. on May 18, 1958.

In 1962, She, her husband and her 3 oldest children moved to San Antonio, Texas.  Here they raised a total of 6 children and celebrated almost 62 years of marriage.

By 1975 until 2014, Tive became known as the neighborhood seamstress.  Family, friends, the mail man, nurses and doctors as far as Seguin, Texas would bring their clothing for her to hem and mend. She loved it!  She enjoyed creating with her sewing machine and sewed many things.   But her joy was being outside in the garden with her plants and roses, but mostly being outside with her husband, where they both loved to tinker and create things out of wood, from bird houses to dog houses, raised rabbits, chickens and their beloved pigeon.

She enjoyed to travel and visit casinos with her husband, her brother-n-law Doroteo and his wife Maria.  She was always being sociable and randomly meeting people, talking to strangers like they were old friends, sharing her life stories, laughing and making memories with them.

When her children or family friends stopped by to visit, she always made her family favorite, Bean and Egg tacos.  They were the best!

She is preceded by her parents, her loving husband Carlos Balderas Sr, May 17, 2020 and her youngest sister Adela Vega Cisneros on October 13, 2021.

Tive is loved and will be missed by her two sons, Carlos Jr and Ricardo; her four daughters, Estella B. Serrano (Santos), Elida B. Perez (Isidro), Gloria B. Gonzalez (Roberto) and Delia B. Guerrero (Ramiro Jr). Her nine grandchildren, Laura E. Harvey (Gabe), Ramiro O. Guerrero III (Allis), Marina K. Balderas, Nicole E. Balderas, Isidro M Perez, III (Gabriela), Mark A. Balderas, Nicholas Balderas, Gabrielle E. Perez, Samuel P. Serrano, and Michael L. Perez. Great grandchildren, Mary Joe Harvey, Cora E. Harvey, Clementine R. Martinez, Kai A. Perez, Henry O. Harvey, and Levi M. Perez. And numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.