1. MENDIOLA FAMILY REUNION Presenter Karen Mendiola Tanguma 2014

2. OUR FAMILY Honor Love Cherish Our Rich Heritage

3. 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

6. GRAND PA ALFRED

7. ANICETO MENDIOLA Great Grand Father

8. DEMETRIO MENDIOLA Great Grand Father

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

10. CLARA GUERRERO AND PARENTS Felipe Guerrero & Gertrude Herrera

12. SONS AND DAUGHTERS

13. HANGING OUT IS A FAMILY TRADITION

14. HANGING OUT Frank, Betty, Friend, Lydia, Charlie

15. HANGING OUT

16. THE MENDIOLA CLAN GRAND CHILDREN GREAT GRAND CHILDREN

17. HANGING OUT

20. THE RED BARN

21. CHILDREN

22. HORSING AROUND IS A FAMILY TRADITION

23. HORSING AROUND

27. SANTA IS A FAMILY TRADITION

28. CHRISTMAS  Gag gifts  Santa on a horse  Grandmother’s bag of gifts

29. SANTA

30. RICH CULTURAL HISTORY  Holiday Traditions  Family Activities Picking cactus Hunting Going to Mendiola’s Ballroom

31. 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)

32. THE OLD COUNTRY

33. 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.

34. BASQUE HISTORY

35. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!