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Category Archives: Memoirs
May 18, 2018 Reception Honoring Virginia “Ginny” Mapes
Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting of the Washington County History Societies Roundtable, and following reception honoring Ginny Mapes on May 18, 2018 at the Garden Home Recreation Center. [Editor: Virginia “Ginny” Mapes authored the first book … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Memoirs, News, People, School
Tagged event, Garden Home School, Mapes, News
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Bruce Koester
Bruce Koester was born in 1946, married Sandy in 1973 and has three children: Beth, Glen and Carl. Bruce has lived in his grandmother’s home near 62nd and Garden Home Road all of his life. The home was built in … Continue reading
Robert Gertsch
Robert Gertsch was born in 1946. His grandfather and two brothers had settled in Garden Home in the 1890s and developed the early Shattuck Dairy. Robert started Garden Home School in the fourth grade in 1960 and graduated from Beaverton … Continue reading
Nancy Donner
Nancy and William (Bill) Donner moved to the Garden Home area in 1967 when Bill was transferred with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers from Walla Walla, Washington. Their large home at SW 62nd and SW Garden Home Road accommodated … Continue reading
Mary Helen Himes Koeber
Mary Helen Himes Koeber (1913-2017) [Update: Mary Helen passed away on May 7, 2017. She was a beautician and opened the first beauty shop in Beaverton. She attended Garden Home and Hillsboro grade schools, graduating from Lincoln High School in … Continue reading
Posted in Early History, Memoirs, Obituaries, People
Tagged Himes, Koeber, Obituaries, Slavin
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Fanno family biography
Fanno is an important name here in our southwest Portland community. The Fanno Creek Trail follows the historic Oregon Electric Railroad track bed that crosses Fanno Creek. The trail then connects to the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District’s (THPRD) … Continue reading
T. E. Hills (U.S. Civil War veteran)
The name of Mr. T.E. Hills comes up in various accounts of early Garden Home. He lived in the older two-story blue house (Dickson home) on Oleson Road at Shirley Lane, 7730 SW Oleson Road, back in the early 1900s. His … Continue reading
Don Krom memoir
My parents were George and Harriet McNamara Krom. My family moved from Wisconsin to Garden Home in 1946 when I was 3 years old. We bought the house on 7 acres of fruit orchard which was located on the NE … Continue reading
Godwin Family
Jannette Godwin (Wassenberg now) married Jack Godwin and had three children in the 1930s: Jalene, Jean and Jim. Jalene has been our source for this Godwin material and it is used with her permission. By Jannette Godwin Wassenberg, 2012 (wife … Continue reading
Posted in Memoirs, People
Tagged Godwin, Kochenderfer, Metzger, Steele, SW 87th Ave, Wassenberg
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The Hunt Club, “Memories of Horsing Around Years”
By Patti (Ransom) Waitman-Ingebretsen *The Hunt Club was located on or near the Frank Estate off SW Oleson Rd in the Garden Home area. Being too young to drive, this writer has no details about location, transportation etc. Teen aged girls … Continue reading