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County Judge Receives Gavel Made From Courthouse Pecan Tree
County Judge Jerry Bearden (right) accepts a handmade gavel from Marcy Dunn of Hill Country Wood Turners in Kerrville, Tx. The pecan wood used for the gavel was from the trees that her great uncle planted 111 years ago on the Courthouse lawn.

When Marcy Dunn of Kerrville got a call from her cousin in Mason, Deann Gregg, that the courthouse was burning, she turned on her television, watched it, and cried. Three days later she called County Judge Jerry Bearden to ask if she could please have some pecan wood from the trees that would be removed from the courthouse square. Not only is Dunn a “wood turner,” and a member of the Hill Country Wood Turners of Kerrville; her family planted the trees around the courthouse here 111 year ...

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