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Recent Posts
- Garden Home History Project Loses Board Member
- Another Goodbye
- Sorrowful Goodbyes
- August 24, 2025 Canine Carnival
- August 16, 2025 Annual Picnic
- Lynn and Mike Couch
- June 22, 2025 Meet and Greet at the Old Market Pub and Brewery
- June 2025 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- John Monpier Vranizan obituary
- Remembering Bob Rummer
- February 2025 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- November 11, 2024 Veteran’s Day bell ringing at Trader Joe’s
- October 2024 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- Leigh Wilcox obituary
- Interview with Elaine “Pidg” Hagen Andrews
- Ronald E. Johnston obituary
- August 2024 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- Kit Bowen Chapter Three
- Jewel Beck Lansing obituary
- May 2024 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- Ernest and Melba Cook, one of the earliest families in Garden Home
- Visit the notable Rich and Charold Baer rose garden in Garden Home
- March 2024 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- Don Dunbar obituary
- Wobbling Into My Past by Kit Bowen
- December 2023 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- November 2023 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- November 11, 2023 Veteran’s Day bell ringing at Trader Joe’s
- USGS historic aerial photography
- Dairies of Garden Home
- Garden Home School class photos
- October 2023 UPDATE – Garden Home History
- Early Grocery and Retail Stores of Garden Home
- Library display of Kent Haley watercolors depicting the Oregon Electric Railway – September 30, 2023
- Patrick Michael “Pat” Cronin obituary
- Garden Home History Timeline
- August 2023 UPDATE – Garden Home History Email
- August 2023 News
- Marjorie Lou Wilder Ross obituary
- Gary VandeVenter obituary
- July 2023 News
- July 2023 UPDATE – Garden Home History Email
- July 16, 2023 Tour of Fogelbo
- Kit Bowen
- Garden Home Library 40th Anniversary – June 3, 2023
- June 2023 News
- April 2023 News
- April 2023 UPDATE – Garden Home History Email
- The search for Cora – May 8th, 2023
- CENTURY HOMES: Robert Pearson
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Category Archives: Obituaries
Clark N. Stephens obituary
Clark N. Stephens, March 10, 1930 to September 1, 2019 Clark, the son of Noble and Bessie Stephens, was born in Portland and raised in Garden Home adjacent to the Portland Golf Club. He started caddying there when he was … Continue reading
Dean Erwin Day obituary
Dean Erwin Day, November 28, 1936 to March 6, 2019 Dean Erwin Day passed away on March 6th at 82. He was born November 28, 1936, in Kelso, Washington, a few months later he moved to Salem, Oregon. In first … Continue reading
George Nobel Babbitt and Mae Babbitt obituary
George Nobel Babbitt, February 6, 1926 to December 19, 2018 Mae Babbitt, December 11, 1921 to May 11, 2016 George Babbitt, a plumber in S.W. Portland for 60 years, born in Bell, California; the oldest of four children. He moved to … Continue reading
Don Sprague obituary
Donald Marvin Sprague Jr., February 6 1948 to October 12 2018 Don was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, neighbor, veteran and friend who touched so many lives in his short 70 years. With a heavy heart and great sadness, … Continue reading
Marlene Carol (Nance) Tufts, PhD obituary
Marlene Carol (Nance) Tufts, PhD, May 2, 1938 – November 8, 2018 Marlene Tufts, 80, passed away peacefully in the early morning of Nov. 8, 2018, at Autumn Hills Memory Care Center in Portland, with her daughter, Luann by her side. … Continue reading