"You don't want one of these graves looking like it's been discarded," he says.
"Funerals happen and people come to put flowers on graves". Looking back, John Pollard, the Tameside coroner, said it was rare to order an exhumation; he had ordered 12. "After the twelfth, I got together with Mr Postles and we were both of the same mind: that we could carry on ad infinitum and that we should now stop.
"Momma and Daddy taught me to love," he said when asked why he came out each year on All Saints' Day to make these graves look nice, to make them look remembered.
Messier said that Graves looked forward to a new beginning in San Jose, where in seven games he has yet to record a goal or an assist, although San Jose has signed him to a contract extension through the 2002-3 season.
We quickly realised that we didn't actually care about a dead freemason, but in the dappling of the summer sun the graves looked really nice.
Hannah stood alone near the grave, looking uncomfortable, but next to her the elderly prophetess was smiling.
There's no obvious path up from the road, so we climbed through the grass and found the grave looking not obscure but unvisited.
There she is, in a wheelchair, holding baby Lorenzo Dominic, her expression composed, dignified, almost grave, looking straight ahead, as if into her mom future.
Those on the dance floor stand stock-still, clutching at themselves and staring down at the floor as if they were standing at a grave looking down upon a loved one.
As the TV cuts abruptly from new relief for those plagued with Restless Leg Syndrome to a grave looking Wolf Blitzer re-playing Ms. Bhutto's oddly prophetic sound-bite, when wearing her signature bright lipstick she talks of her own fears of "death", I feel a sense of restlessness myself.
You can still honor the person's memory by talking about that person with loved ones who cared about him, visiting his grave, looking over photos or prized possessions that remind you of him, or just taking contemplative walks and thinking about that person.
