Category Archives: People

Barbara Kiggins Green memoir

Posted on October 8, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

[Editor: See the 2022 obituary for Barbara Ann Green.] By Barbara (Kiggins) Green, 2019 (age 87) I was born in 1931 and we moved to Garden Home around 1934 or 1935. We lived in a small two room house with an … Continue reading →

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The Garden Home Totem Pole, by Andrew Gorman

Posted on August 18, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

[Editor: Many of you who have lived in Garden Home since the 1990s will remember the surprising totem pole standing in the shrubs at the NW corner of SW 82nd and Garden Home Road. Unfortunately it gradually deteriorated in our … Continue reading →

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Glenn and Isolda Rooper Steele

Posted on August 18, 2019 by GHHP

Glenn (1895-1989) and Isolda Rooper Steele (1896-1986) In 1937, Glenn and Isolda Steele relocated to Garden Home from Antelope, Oregon. Isolda worked at the Garden Home School preparing lunches for the children and staff in the late 1930s, 1940s and … Continue reading →

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November 10, 2018 Veteran’s Day Honors

Posted on November 19, 2018 by gardenhomehistoryproject

On Saturday, November 10, we held our Veteran’s Day Honors at the Garden Home Recreation Center. Photos, interviews, historic displays, pie and coffee. Aloha American Legion Post 104 presented the colors. Sig Unander presented the slide show of Fly Gals, the story … Continue reading →

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Ward Nelson – Garden Home memoir

Posted on September 12, 2018 by gardenhomehistoryproject

We moved to 7814 SW Occidental Avenue as it was called in those days, in 1947. Today it is 7170 SW 76th. My parents were Helene and Ward Nelson. We moved from Ardenwald, near Milwaukie, where my grandmother lived. Our … Continue reading →

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