One well-known local story recalls a time during the Korean conflict. The Bolin girls, well-known in the Beaverton area as operators with the Beaverton Telephone company, received a telegram addressed to John and Flossie Whitmer, parents of Olan Whitmer. The Whitmer family lived about a mile east of Beaverton. That telegram advised his family that Olan had been missing in action since August 17...
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