Murder and Intrigue in Old Tualatin

"The year was 1916. Mary Geiberger cleared some space in her home, set up the quilt frames and invited 22 neighbors in for a special quilting bee. There they made a friendship quilt as a gift to Barbara Galbreath. Each woman embroidered her initials in blue thread on a white quilt block, and then all were stitched together and quilted.

The quilters had much to talk about as they sewed on Barbara’s quilt. Tualatin’s grand old lady, Maria Sweek, had died. She was about the last of Tualatin’s original Oregon Trail settlers, and a generous and thoughtful neighbor, and her passing signaled the end of an era.

But what really made the tongues fly was the news of what had happened to Het Jennings over at the Gore house on Tualatin-Sherwood Road.”

-Tualatin...From the Beginning