In this edition: June 22 Meet and Greet at the Old Market Pub and Brewery, Display Cabinet – Women’s handiwork, Remembering John Vranizan, and Remembering Bob Rummer.

Hello to our Garden Home History Friends –  We hope you are enjoying the beautiful flowers of Garden Home.  We’d love to chat with you at the June 22nd Meet and Greet event at The Old Market Pub, at the curve on Garden Home Road and see Tom’s slide presentation of the plane crash of the 1940s.  Check out our Garden Home history displays in the Garden Home Library.  Like to help?  Email to ElaineShreve@comcast.net.

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June 22 Meet and Greet at the Old Market Pub and Brewery

Join us Sunday June 22 at the Old Market Pub and Brewery for a Meet and Greet as well as a presentation of the 1944 fighter plane crash in Garden Home.

2025-06-22 Garden Home Meet and Greet

Display Cabinet – Women’s needlework

We’ve updated the Library Display Cabinet to feature women’s needlework.

May-June 2025 Women’s needlework – full cabinet

May-June 2025 Women’s needlework – top shelf

May-June 2025 Women’s needlework – middle shelf

May-June 2025 Women’s needlework – bottom shelf

Remembering John Vranizan

John Monpier Vranizan

John Vranizan passed away at home on April 30th, 2025. John’s wife, Carole Vranizan, served on the Garden Home History Project’s Board of Directors in the early formative years. Her many contributions included wonderful bouquets. We send our condolences to Carole and her family over the loss of her husband, John. We invite you to read John’s obituary.

Remembering Bob Rummer

Bob and Phyliss Rummer

Bob Rummer was important builder responsible for the Rummer Homes development between Garden Home Road and the Portland Golf Club. Read more about Bob Rummer and Rummer Homes.

Remember Garden Home!

We had reports from a number of residents who lived in Garden Home in the 1940s of a fighter plane crash in Garden Home. They recall that they went to the crash site to try to find souvenirs or the family talked about the crash. Read the story of our investigation and what we learned.

Garden Home plane crash pilot Robert H. Strong

P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane

Discover Garden Home!

Send us pictures of what’s growing in your neighborhood. You can email Elaine, our editor, at GardenHomeHistory@gmail.com.

Cherry or Dogwood? What do you think?

Spring daffodils

Mature agave growing 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