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