The Red Oak tree planted for the late Bert Metz for La Grange Park’s Arbor Day 2024 celebration.
The ceremony included the tree planting on the Oak Avenue parkway, just east of the Newberry Avenue house that Metz bought after coming home from the Korean War. Bert Metz served in the Korean War for two years, first as a sniper and then in Army Intelligence, which led to his career as a methods analyst at Western Electric.
“This is great,” granddaughter Lea Metz said, pointing to the houses her grandparents lived in, one on Newberry and the other on Oak, just across the street from one another. “He’d been a resident for 70 years. He loved La Grange Park and he loved sitting on his porch on Meadowcrest. I really enjoyed talking to him. He was really knowledgeable and wise … he built his house around the Oak trees.”
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