Avery templates for funeral programs6/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() WELLS: The oldest child of the family, Garrison grew up with two brothers and a sister. SUE AVERY (Mother): And then we saw that through his high school years and through West Point, the same idea, making his way, looking at his options, and then just striving for that goal. His mother Sue says even when he was very young, he didn't have fleeting ideas, he had specific, attainable goals. His uncle currently serves in the Pentagon as a chaplain.Īvery began talking about going into the Armed Forces when he was only 11, and he followed through on that plan. One grandfather served 27-years in the Air Force, and the other was a medic at the end of World War II. Growing up in Lincoln, Garrison Avery's life was, as his father puts it, fairly saturated with the military. Nebraska Public Radio's Martin Wells has this remembrance. He was killed in a roadside bomb attack, along with two other soldiers in Baghdad on February 1. Today at the West Point Military Academy, a funeral is being held for Army 1st Lt.
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