Church employees

Usage examples of sextons.

The sextons then brought on the top, which was usually in two segments.

The sextons would run lengths of chain through them and lower them gently onto the top of the grave liner.

And, when the funeral was over, Oz would crush his cigarette on the heel of his tewwible workboot, put it in whatever container he carried around with him (in a cemetery, sextons caught depositing their butts on the ground were almost always summarily fired—it looked bad.

Below my six-years-planted box, round it on every side, and now above it too, the soil was thick with jumbled old bones, churned up by the sextons in their ceaseless search for space in which to plant the recent dead.