Category Archives: Memoirs

Memoirs written by residents

The Newton Boys

Posted on October 22, 2011 by GHHP

The Newtons: Growing Up With Garden Home Gladys and Albert Newton and their seven boys moved to Garden Home in the early fall of 1935. Their eldest, Donal McIntosh, Gladys’ son by a previous marriage, was in his last years at … Continue reading →

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Zora and Sharka Becvar

Posted on May 22, 2011 by GHHP

Life in Garden Home in the 1930s and 1940s. The front yard at our house had a large walnut tree and one branch was strong and large enough for us to pretend it was a horse. We could saddle it up with a … Continue reading →

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Angie MacKay Fredrickson

Posted on March 22, 2011 by GHHP

March 2011 My mother and father bought an acre and a third on 82nd Avenue, off of Taylors Ferry Road. We had a route number for an address— Rt 6 Box 936 to be exact. My father cleared the land … Continue reading →

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Clark Stephens

Posted on November 22, 2010 by GHHP

[Editor: Clark passed on September 1, 2019, see also the obituary for Clark Stephens.] My parents Noble and Bessie (Elizabeth) Stephens moved to Garden Home in 1928. They both were going to business school in Portland. They and friends would go camping … Continue reading →

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Vlasta Becvar Barber

Posted on November 22, 2010 by GHHP

[Editor: Vlasta Nora Barber, age 95, of Tigard, Oregon passed away on Thursday, May 12, 2022. Vlasta was born December 7, 1926 in Maplewood, Oregon.] Garden Home Grade School September 1934 – May 1939 [Editor’s note: Vlasta wrote the following … Continue reading →

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Ron and Jewel Lansing

Posted on October 21, 2010 by GHHP

Ron and Jewel Lansing moved to the Garden Home area of Portland in August 1961, where new daughter Annette joined siblings Mark and Alyse. The Lansings purchased a house overlooking Multnomah Boulevard at 7930 SW 62nd Place and lived there for six … Continue reading →

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Colin Lamb and the history of Lamb’s Garden Home Thriftway

Posted on April 21, 2010 by GHHP

April 22, 2010 by Colin Lamb My Dad, Forrest Lamb, developed the first Lamb’s Thriftway in 1957 on the northeast section of the Garden Home intersection. Dad and his brother Robert had started a grocery business, Lamb Brothers Market, in … Continue reading →

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Gerry Frank

Posted on April 5, 2010 by GHHP

[Editor: Gerry passed away in March 13, 2022 at the age of 98. See Remembering Gerry Frank. The Oregon Historical Society celebrated his 100th birthday on September 21, 2023.] By Gerry Frank, 2010 Our family home was in southwest Portland on … Continue reading →

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Oscar and Mary Olson

Posted on March 22, 2010 by GHHP

Interviewed March 2010. Oscar and Mary Olson have retired to a lovely complex, Mary’s Woods in Lake Oswego. They have fond memories of Garden Home, a place where they raised their family. They lived most of the time at 7380 S.W. 77th in … Continue reading →

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George and Mae Babbitt

Posted on February 21, 2010 by GHHP

Oral history interview done on Feb. 26, 2010 by Elaine Shreve George and Mae Babbitt moved to Garden Home in January of 1950. George served in the Army Air Force in WWII and moved to Oregon in a 1932 Ford … Continue reading →

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