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- This week’s episode of Sister Wives, which aired on Sunday, Could 18, noticed the Brown household making preparations for Garrison Brown’s funeral in Wyoming
- Kody Brown discovered a particular strategy to honor his late son by opting to dig Garrison’s grave
- “It means one thing to me. I do not know why. It is one thing deeply emotional,” Kody stated
Kody Brown discovered a particular strategy to honor his late son, Garrison Brown, after his sudden demise.
On the most recent episode of Sister Wives, which aired on Sunday, Could 18, the Brown household was making preparations for Garrison’s funeral in Wyoming. A type of preparations included Kody, 56, opting to dig Garrison’s grave.
“Here is the factor. I talked to the sexton of the cemetery, and he is the one that may usually dig the graves,” Kody defined to the cameras, as he was proven arriving on the grave website. “I simply requested him [for] permission if I might dig it. It means one thing to me. I do not know why. It is one thing deeply emotional.”
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He didn’t full the duty alone. He was joined by his brother, Scott, and brother-in-law, Tim, each of whom Kody stated are part of “the lads group who nurtured” Garrison “into maturity.”
Kody did not convey the urn that Garrison’s stays are in, which might have helped them with measuring out the grave. However the father of 18 famous that “Mitch, my son-in-law, married to Aspyn, is making one thing totally different and I do not know what it seems like but.”
“For the act of effort on this, as a result of we’re not digging a grave large enough for a coffin, I will make it a bit bit greater than definitely that I would like for this urn,” Kody defined. “I would like the expertise of doing a little actual effort right here.”
“Simply making an attempt to honor my son as finest I can. I do not even know if it is honor. It is mourning,” he added.
Garrison’s grave will probably be beside different deceased members of the family, particularly, Grandma Cheryl, who Kody stated “most likely nurtured Garrison as a lot as any of us.”
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“I’ve by no means performed something like this, digging a grave,” Kody then stated. “I assume this is without doubt one of the most essential issues I’ve ever performed. It is the final ode to my boy.”
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Later, Janelle Brown revealed to the cameras that Kody — whom she separated from in 2022 — had “contacted me about being the one who does the grave.”
“I believed it was good,” she continued. “I believe it is symbolic and poetic and all of the issues to have Kody dig that gap.”
Garrison died in March 2025 at age 25. PEOPLE confirmed two months after that his demise was dominated a suicide.
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Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
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