Together, they have five grandchildren, Zack, Noelle, Max, Jakob and Alora. Find Mike Mendenhalls email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter. He has four daughters, Rebecca, Sarah, Tracee and Jessica from a previous marriage and a daughter and son, PJ and Frank through his wife, Peggy. For the past three years, he has been a member of the American Legion. He is also a 58-year member of the East Quogue United Methodist Church and has 51 years with the Westhampton VFW. While working, Mendenhall volunteered for the East Quogue Fire Department. in 1965 and in 1980, he passed the business on to his son. He changed the business name to Mendenhall Fuel, Inc.

When his father took over the business, he started C L Mendenhall Fuel offering home heating oil delivery service with a 1929 Chevy pickup on which he mounted a 300-gallon tank. The Les Jardin community has a serene feel with pine trees and streams throughout, 2 pool/spa areas, clubhouse & 2 guest parking lots. At that time, the company was called Columbia Garage, and sold gasoline and kerosene. He went to work for the family business that was started by his grandfather. Americans, he said fired big guns, known as Howitzers back out of the camp.įollowing the end of his tour in February 1968, Mendenhall was released from active duty and headed back home to East Quogue. He recalls long nights pulling guard duty when the Viet Cong would attack the main camp gates with mortars that were constantly being fired into the camp. While in Vietnam, Mendenhall first assisted in building barracks and then was assigned as the motor pool parts coordinator where he ordered and inventoried all parts. He served with the 86 th Engineer Detachment, attached to the 1 st Calvary unit. In March 1967, Mendenhall after receiving orders for Vietnam, he was sent to Camp Radcliff in the central highlands near An Khe.

He rounded off his training at Fort Carson in Colorado in the winter of 1966-67 in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning program. After Basic he was sent to Fort Sam in Texas in for Combat medic training. He graduated Westhampton Beach High School in 1963 and then headed to SUNY Farmingdale to study heating, ventilation and air conditioning.įollowing college, Mendenhall received his draft papers and reported for basic training at Fort Gordon in Georgia in 1966. He attended East Quogue Elementary School through the fifth grade and then moved on to sixth grade at the then six corners school in Westhampton Beach. Thomas Mendenhall, born Apto Carleton and Alice Mendenhall, has lived on the East End his entire life.

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