Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
It’s 38 degrees and misting slightly on the grassy knoll as Glenn Yoder climbs aboard his 1970 Ford tractor-backhoe to dig yet another grave at Gilliland Cemetery.
Yoder is 93. He’s been digging graves locally since 1966, when he got a phone call from Blair Smith, the caretaker at Gilliland, asking if he’d be willing to dig a grave at the cemetery with his backhoe. In those days, Yoder…