Sister Wives’ Meri Brown Feels ‘Lonely’ After Mom and Dad’s Deaths

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Meri Brown is holding her mother and father’ recollections alive — and dealing via her grief — after their deaths.

“Miss these two wonderful people,” Brown, 52, captioned an Instagram snap on Monday, August 7, of her mother, Bonnie Joyce Ahistrom, and pa William James Jr.’s joint gravestone. “Miss their knowledge, their laughter, their love.”

The Sister Wives star revealed, “Nothing feels as lonely some days as if you don’t have mother and pa with you. Nothing can exchange them.”

Brown defined that there are “so many candy recollections of them will reside on” as she and youngster Leon, 28, proceed to reside completely happy lives. “Hopefully I can share a small spark of their gentle with the world,” she concluded, noting that she made a “fast pit cease” on the cemetery throughout her “travels.”

Meri Brown Feels Lonely Some Days After Her Parents Deaths
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Brown misplaced her father in 2007 and her mom in 2021. Sister Wives documented the second when Brown discovered her mother died at age 76.

“I discovered that she had been having a coronary heart assault for a number of days. It’s not one thing I’m prepared for,” Brown mentioned within the September 2022 episode whereas driving to her mother’s dwelling in Utah. “She’s solely 76. … I don’t even understand how to do that. It simply occurred so quick. My mother was probably the most giving person who I ever knew.”

Following her demise, Meri’s now-ex-husband, Kody Brown, instructed the cameras how heartbreaking the loss was for him. “Bonnie was my first mother-in-law. I fell in love along with her first,” Kody, 54, defined on the time. “She was all the time simply heat to me.”

Kody married first spouse Meri in 1990. He proceeded to spiritually wed Janelle Brown in 1992 and Christine Brown in 1993. Robyn Brown joined the plural household in 2010 and 4 years later they legally married. Kody divorced Meri in 2014 and remained in a religious union along with her till they introduced in January that they’d parted methods.

Meri and Kody, who share Leon, publicly confirmed their break up through an Instagram assertion, writing, “After greater than a decade of engaged on our relationship in our personal distinctive methods, we have now made the choice to completely terminate our marriage relationship.”

The breakup got here after Christine, 51, introduced in November 2021 that she and Kody had known as it quits. Janelle, for her half, confirmed throughout a Sister Wives tell-all episode that aired in December 2022 that she and Kody had been “separated for months.”

Kody, who shares six youngsters with Christine and 6 youngsters with Janelle, 54, continues to be married to Robyn, 44. Kody and Robyn share two children. The patriarch can be the adoptive father of Robyn’s three youngsters from a previous marriage.