Donations in Honor of Sister Wives’ Garrison Brown Have Saved Multiple Cats, Animal Rescue Shares

Garrison Brown is being honored by the Arizona animal shelter where he adopted his beloved cats.

PEOPLE has a sneak peek at Sunday, May 11’s episode of Sister Wives, in which Janelle Brown and her youngest daughter, Savanah, stop by the High Country Humane Animal Shelter in Flagstaff. The rescue is where her late son, Garrison, who died in 2024, adopted all three of his beloved pet cats.

In the clip, Janelle and Savanah visit the rescue to see its newly dedicated cat adoption center named for Garrison. The shelter designed the space as an area for potential adopters to meet and play with rescue cats.

Janelle shares her reaction to seeing a plaque with her son’s name and a photo of him smiling while holding his cats on the room’s wall.

“It’s such a funny thing,” Janelle says through tears, recalling the reactions to her son’s death. “He was in nursing school, and his class called and said, ‘Where can we donate?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know, the humane society.'”

After sharing that Garrison adopted his three cats — named Catthew, Patches, and Ms. Buttons — at the shelter, a representative for High Country Humane tells Janelle that the room will help adopters get to know their cats better before taking them home.

“I hope the plaque shares how grateful we are for the donations since his passing,” the representative tells Janelle. “$25,000 has been raised for High Country Humane for the cats, so the room naming was one way we thought we could honor Garrison.”

Garrison died by suicide at age 25 on March 5, 2024. His parents, Janelle, 54, and Kody, 55, confirmed the news via social media.

The shelter first shared that it had named its cat adoption center after Garrison in an Instagram post soon after his death. In the post, the animal shelter said it had named a cat adoption room after Garrison in honor of his love and devotion to the felines sheltered there.

“Today, we honor Robert Garrison Brown for his love and compassion towards cats and all animals by naming our Cat Adoption Room after him and the cats he loved and adopted from us,” the organization said.

“Garrison, your memory has touched so many lives already and will continue to do so here at High Country Humane for years to come. Thank you for sharing your passion for animals with us, we will remember you always,” the statement continued.