Personalizing a pandemic’s perpetual fury with a tree

COVID-19 trees blessed and celebrated in Kingsbridge Heights ceremony led by Father Franco

By GARY LARKIN

Posted 4/17/22

Paul Waylonis.

Luis Tovar.

Vidal Galicia Chalpeno.

Those were just a few of the more than 40 names of those lost to COVID-19 that were read aloud April 9 at a memorial on the corner of University and Reservoir avenues in Kingsbridge Heights.

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Personalizing a pandemic’s perpetual fury with a tree

COVID-19 trees blessed and celebrated in Kingsbridge Heights ceremony led by Father Franco

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Personalizing a pandemic’s perpetual fury with a tree

COVID-19 trees blessed and celebrated in Kingsbridge Heights ceremony led by Father Franco

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Blanche Morganstern, better known as 'The Jewelry Lady.' 96

Kelly O'Connor, mother of two, and a true lover of animals, 50

Sol Solomon, former features reporter for Riverdale Press, 74

Doris Redmond, always ready to help others, 92