In this edition: Veterans Day Bell Ringing at Trader Joes 11 am to 1 pm, Monday November, 11, 2024, Displays At the Garden Home Library, Halloween Graveyard, Elaine “Pidg” Hagen Andrews, Closing of Shari’s, and In Memoriam: Leigh Wilcox.

Hello to our Garden Home History Friends – We’re munching on some of our Halloween candy and hope you are also.  With our few Trick or Treaters, this year I bought what we like to eat!

Veterans Day Bell Ringing at Trader Joes 11 am to 1 pm, Monday November, 11, 2024

With the assistance of the manager at Trader Joe’s and all of you, we remember and are thankful for our Veterans.  Join us to ring the bell!  Let us know if you are a veteran!

2023 Veterans Day bell ringing

2023 Veterans Day bell ringing

2023 Veterans Day bell ringing

At the Garden Home Library

The construction progress of the new Beaverton High School and Raleigh Hills Elementary School are displayed in our History Cabinet at the Garden Home Library. It will probably be about 2 years before the new schools are ready.

Beaverton High School construction 2024

Beaverton High School construction 2024

Raleigh Hills Elementary School, construction 2024

We want to display toys from your childhood in the December and January Library History Display Cabinet. Let us know if you have something to share. Email us at GardenHomeHistory@gmail.com.

Elaine “Pidg” Hagen Andrews

Hagen Plaque

The Hagen family moved to the home on Oleson Road next to the Hunt Club in the late 1940s. Her father, Herbert Hagen, is memorialized on the bell tower plaque outside the entrance to the Garden Home Library. Read her interesting memoirs, by Marie Pacella.

Closing of Shari’s

Shari’s of Garden Home

Sign in the window of the closed Shari’s

All of the Oregon Shari’s restaurants are closing, including ours , in the Garden Home shopping mall. After so many years serving our Garden Home families, we’re sorry to see it close. The latest poster on the door says a new business is coming.

In Memoriam: Leigh Wilcox

See the obituary for Leigh Wilcox. His wife Sharon Wilcox wrote several of our early stories and was an inspiration to develop GardenHomeHistory.com. Leigh was a leader in education administration and community activities.

Remember Garden Home!

Veterans Day Bell Ringing 2023

Veterans Day Bell Ringing 2023

Original plaque dedicating the original United Methodist Church bell tower to Lyle “Toad” Tate

A few photos from last year’s bell ringing to honor our veterans. This church bell first came to Garden Home in 1918 where it rang out the call to church and community events. Old timers have recalled hearing it ring for the end of World War II. It was donated to Colin Lamb at the closure of the Garden Home Methodist Church when he was finishing the clock tower in a previous store, Lamb’s Thriftway, and has been passed on to his subsequent stores.  Trader Joe’s first rang the bell to welcome the new staff who opened the store on October 29, 1921. See the plaque in the entryway remembering Lyle Tate, a local veteran who was killed in the Vietnam war on May 9, 1967. This plaque originally hung at the Methodist Church on SW 81^st street.

Discover Garden Home!

Graveyard near the north end of SW 82nd Street off Garden Home Road

Graveyard near the north end of SW 82nd Street off Garden Home Road

Graveyard near the north end of SW 82nd Street off Garden Home Road

Visit the wonderful Halloween graveyard near the north end of SW 82^nd Street off Garden Home Road. Kirstin Lurtz has developed the clever tombstone names, more each year, and see the glowing green in the nighttime views. Just park and enjoy. Thank you Kirstin!   And let us know of other special Halloween décor here in Garden Home.

Volunteer and make friends

New people might enjoy research, do interviews, visit special Garden Home sites, write stories for the website, help with the History corner displays, and so much more! Call Patsy VandeVenter at 971-275-0307 or Esta Mapes at 503-246-5758. Board meetings are usually at 4:30-6:00 pm on the second Monday of the month, and open to the public.

Stay safe and well, from all of our volunteer dedicated Board of Directors: Patsy VandeVenter, Mickey Lindsay, Esta Mapes, Sharon Vedder, John and Marie Pacella, Stan and Susan Houseman, Jan Fredrickson, Kevin Mistler, and Elaine Shreve. Tom Shreve is our webmaster.

– Elaine