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Mendiola Family Reunion

Mendiola Family 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

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Mendiola Family Reunion

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  1. MendiolaFamily Reunion Presenter Karen Mendiola Tanguma 2014

  2. Our Family Honor Love Cherish Our Rich Heritage

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

  4. Grand Pa Alfred

  5. AnicetoMendiola Great Grand Father

  6. DemetrioMendiola Great Great Grand Father

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

  8. Clara Guerrero and Parents Felipe Guerrero & Gertrude Herrera

  9. Sons and Daughters

  10. Hanging Out IsA Family tradition

  11. Hanging Out Frank, Betty, Friend, Lydia, Charlie

  12. Hanging out

  13. The Mendiola ClanGrand ChildrenGreat Grand Children

  14. Hanging out

  15. Hanging out

  16. The Red Barn

  17. Children

  18. Horsing Around IsA Family tradition

  19. Horsing Around

  20. Horsing Around

  21. Horsing Around

  22. Horsing Around

  23. Santa IsA Family tradition

  24. Christmas • Gag gifts • Santa on a horse • Grandmother’s bag of gifts

  25. Santa

  26. Rich Cultural History • Holiday Traditions • Family Activities • Picking cactus • Hunting • Going to Mendiola’s Ballroom

  27. 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)

  28. The Old Country

  29. 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.

  30. Basque History

  31. Happy Mother’s Day!

  32. The End

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