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Show Relatives told of death of Vietnam soldier Relatives here received word this week that Captain Thomas Deal Mendenhall, 37, was killed in action in Vietnam on April 18. He was aircraft commander aboard a U H-I helicopter on encountered hostile small arms encoutered hostile small rams ground fire and crashed and burned. He was the son of the late Wilford and Clara Mendenhall of Phoenix, Arizona, and the grandson of the late Thomas D. and Anna Huntington Mendenhall Men-denhall of Springville. He was within six weeks of taking a new assignment in Georgia after af-ter a year in Vietnam. He is survived by his wife of Los Angeles and a son and daughter. daugh-ter. His sisters, Legia and Alice Ann and one brother, Clair, also , survive. |