Homewood and Tuallitan roads owe their names to Judith Scott Walter (1887-1951), a wealthy real estate speculator who christened them both in 1937. She was born Judith Scott in Portland, OR; her father Harvey (1838-1910) was editor-in-chief of the Oregonian. (An outspoken racist, Harvey Scott has unsurprisingly become persona non grata in 21st century Portland: a statue of him was toppled by protesters in 2020.) She married first husband Leroy Fields in 1913 and had twin daughters and a son with him. After Leroy was felled by a heart attack in 1927, Judith and her kids retired to their country mansion in Tigard, OR. She dubbed the mansion “Homewood” – hence our Homewood Road – and four miles from Tigard is the town of Tualatin, the spelling of which was mangled into our Tuallitan Road. In 1930, Judith Scott Fields was united in marriage to Pasadena’s William Emley Walter, a divorced publisher with four grown kids of his own. She split the rest of her life between Oregon and Beverly Hills.
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