Majestic cedar to be cut down: Big tree is dead in Korner family plot at Moravian church

"It started dying in November," [Al Singleton] said. "It started with one little limb, and it didn't seem like it was going to hurt it, and in January it just took off." The graveyard is separate from the rest of the Moravian cemetery because the [Jule Korner] family wanted...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Young, Wesley
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 17.05.2007
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Cemeteries
Korner, Jule
Singleton, Al
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Summary:"It started dying in November," [Al Singleton] said. "It started with one little limb, and it didn't seem like it was going to hurt it, and in January it just took off." The graveyard is separate from the rest of the Moravian cemetery because the [Jule Korner] family wanted to bury "Aunt Dealey" -- Clara Korner -- with the rest of the family. "When you have a church that is as old as Kernersville Moravian, the people that were there when the church was small really cherish things like that," he said. "As long as it was alive and pretty and green, it was a beautiful tree."