Aaron Tappley, Antonio Garcia, Brandon Coleman, Carol Horner.
The names of 102 Portlanders who died while homeless in 2025 were read out one at a time from the pulpit in the small sanctuary at St. André Bessette Catholic Church, the one with the red doors on the edge of Old Town.
The names were not from an official government list. Instead, they were crowdsourced by the coalition of homeless services nonprofits that hosted the annual vigil, always held on winter solstice, the longest night of the year…