My name's Lane Brundage.

I'm the Sexton at the Bent Count Los Alamos Cemetery, and we're just responsible for a little bit of everything from maintenance burials, you know, mowing, trimming.

And right now, we're working on trees.

We've been working on them for about three years.

That's what we're doing today Ive lived here all my life and I work for the City of La Junta and Im a sexton for the cemetery of La Junta water maintenance, in the summer its different, in the winter its different we clear a lot of snow, we trim trees we cut down trees its all just a big backyard with a bunch of tombstones on there These are some of the areas that we've started planting grass and getting ready for the future.

You know, Its a good job, you dont do the same thing everyday you do something different everyday and, thats what the guys like I just kind of enjoy all of it.

There's no one in particular thing, and I guess that's where I kind of like, it's not You're doing the same mundane thing every day.

Every day.

It's just the variety Youre weeding you're mowing, you're fixing something, you're, you know, taking care of equipment or whatever.

It's just something different every day.

And that's kind of what I like.

Well, I like being outdoors.

It's kind of a quiet place to work.

We have a cemetery board of three and they're really great to work with.

And it's just, you know, it's peaceful out here I'd rather be outside than indoor.

So this is kind of enjoy doing it.

Ive been here 22 years this time ive buried a lot of family my parents, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws good friends from high school and stuff with that Covid, buried a lot of friends out here You know, you find yourself attending some of these services and you wish you wouldn't have to.

But unfortunately, that's part of it.

You know, I even buried my own father here.

So, I was going to quit when I buried my dad I couldnt, I couldnt handle it.

but its part of life.

Its all good now.

You come here everyday, you cant see them in person, and you cant get their advice, but, you just go up to their grave and, “Hows it going?

Good morning!” and off you go, “have a good day!” We know its hard, everybody has lost somebody and its hard.

you know, and we all have to go through it, sometime or another and its rough but, theyre going to a better place and theyre not suffering no more.

I come out here, give them a little bit of extra water for their flowers and stuff you know?

And treat everybody the same.

No matter what race it is, we treat everybody the same.

Every funeral is the same.