Why Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Dug the Grave for Son Garrison’s Burial
As he and his ex-wife Janelle Brown prepared to lay their son Garrison Brown to rest following his death in March 2024 at age 25, the Sister Wives star felt it was important to dig the grave himself.
“I’ve never done anything like this, digging a grave,” Kody said during the May 18 episode of the TLC series. “And I think this is one of the most important things I’ve ever done. It’s the last ode to my boy.”
With this mission in mind, Kody—who also shares kids Logan Brown, 31, Madison Brush, 29, Hunter Brown, 28, Gabriel Brown, 23, and Savanah Brown, 20, with Janelle—wanted to turn the “final act” of burying Garrison’s ashes into a labor of love.
“For the act of effort in this, because we’re not digging a grave big enough for a coffin, I’m going to make it a little bit bigger than certainly I need for this urn,” he explained. “I want the experience of doing some real effort here. Just trying to honor my son as best I can.”
Reflecting on the grief he and the rest of the Brown family—including wife Robyn Brown, exes Meri Brown and Christine Brown, as well as his other children—have felt since Garrison’s death by suicide, he continued, “I don’t even know if it’s honor. It’s mourning.”
“My dad is buried here,” Kody shared. “My mom will be. Janelle’s mom, Grandma Cheryl, is buried here. It’s just the place and we can see this mountain over here. It’s called the Heart Mountain and it’s familiar to me.”
He added, “I wanted Garrison buried right next to Cheryl. Grandma Cheryl probably nurtured Garrison as much as any of us. And I’m putting Garrison in grandma’s arms.”
And despite Kody’s strained relationship with Janelle, with whom he split in 2022 after 25 years of marriage, she was fully supportive of his wishes.
“I asked her if I could do this and she was kind and gracious,” the dad of 18 said. “She said, ‘I think that’d be really sweet,’ and I’m glad that she saw it that way because I need this.”
Read on for a deeper dive into the rest of Kody’s kids.
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