MENDIOLAFAMILY REUNION

Presenter

Karen Mendiola Tanguma

2014

OUR FAMILY

Honor

Love

Cherish

Our

Rich

Heritage

GRAND PA

CANDY• Hardworking• Disciplined and Strong• Business Owner• Great Business Sense• Farmer, Rancher• Texas Cowboy• Didn’t like city slicker• Carried a gun• Lots of Hats

GRAND PA ALFRED

ANICETOMENDIOLA

Great Grand Father

DEMETRIOMENDIOLA

Great GreatGrand Father

GRAND MA

• Seamstress & Chef• Midwife and Teacher• Mother, Wife, Friend• Sensitive and smart• Hardworking• Gardener, Roses• Peacemaker• Forgiving• High moral standards• Religious

CLARA GUERRERO

AND PARENTS

Felipe Guerrero&

Gertrude Herrera

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

HANGING OUT IS

A FAMILY TRADITION

HANGING OUT

Frank, Betty, Friend, Lydia, Charlie

HANGING OUT

THE MENDIOLA CLAN

GRAND CHILDRENGREAT GRAND CHILDREN

HANGING OUT

HANGING OUT

THE RED BARN

CHILDREN

HORSING AROUND IS

A FAMILY TRADITION

HORSING AROUND

HORSING AROUND

HORSING AROUND

HORSING AROUND

SANTA IS

A FAMILY TRADITION

CHRISTMAS

G

ag gifts

S

anta on a horse

G

randmother’s bag of gifts

SANTA

RICH CULTURAL HISTORY

Holiday Traditions

Family Activities• Picking cactus • Hunting• Going to Mendiola’s Ballroom

HISTORY

1853- The heirs of Juan Mendiola transferred their interest

in the Rincon to Captain Richard King

15,449.4 acres located in Nueces County

Original Spanish land Grant of Don Hernando Mendiola

(1736)

THE OLD COUNTRY

THE BEGINNING

• Pyrenees Mountains (boarder of Spain and France) is where our family name originated.

• House of Navarra, as Pamplona kings

• 40,000 BC, four cave sites in Navarre

• The Mendiola history spans back to the Ice Age, where our Cro-Magnon (cave) ancestors struggled to survive.

BASQUE HISTORY

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!