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Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Sister of Providence

“My sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair.”   Mother Joseph of...

Mothers Legacy Project

The Mothers Legacy Project is honored to be part of the Walk of the Heroines. Together we will...

Oregon American Mothers Association

Oregon American Mothers Association is the state affiliate of American Mothers, Inc, an interfaith...

Portland Women's Foundation

Established 1887 as Portland Women’s Union, the Portland Women’s Foundation worked to...

The Hambleton Project

The Hambleton Project—Portland’s Lesbian Cancer Support Network—was a grass roots...

Matsu Ito Asai

Born October 17, 1892, Matsu (“Pine Tree”) Ito came from hardy farmer stock in Kisosaki...

Ruth T. Bakke

Ruth was born in a small log cabin in Ferndale, Washington.  She had older sisters and...

Lenore Ruth Beck Frimoth

Lenore Ruth Beck Frimoth is the heroine for many persons beginning with her immediate family:...

Shirley Tengberg Berselli

Shirley Anne Tengberg Berselli died Sept. 27, 2009 in her Dunthorpe home of complications of...

Hedwig Hauglin Birkeland

There is a photo of my grandmother standing with her friend Jenny Favey on the deck of the ship...