IDEAS Digging a grave for our beloved, departed goldendoodle was hard. We wouldn’t have had it any other way. I yearned for a backhoe. Only after we’d finished the backbreaking labor did I ...

These days, they use a backhoe to dig a grave and put someone six feet under, then cover it with the dug-up dirt. It’s a mound of deep, red clay that is about two and a half feet high. There is a ...

Then Montgomery starts digging with a backhoe. After 25 years at Arlington, almost half of his life, he needs no help, no measuring stick or hand signals from a co-worker, to judge dimensions.

They tried to document everything they could, focused on capturing the digging of graves by hand, and what the process can mean to those involved. Raasch noted that after Hall retires or passes away, ...

Authorities are using a backhoe at a Detroit cemetery in response to complaints that some deceased might not be buried in the right graves.