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1948 Monarch Blooming Grove School Year Book
K-9 Veteran Of Pacific
Fighting Is Fatally
Injured at Blooming
Grove
Jack, a German police
dog, one of the most
popular pets in Blooming
Grove, is dead.
Owned by the R. D.
Garrison family, the
six-year-old canine was
a veteran of
World War II,
receiving an honorable
discharge from the armed
forces after service in
the South Pacific.
Jack was raised by
Garrison, a rural route
carrier, according to
Drew Gillen, Blooming
Grove business man and
former county
commissioner. When the
government appealed for
police dogs to fight the
Japs, Garrison
volunteered Jack who was
trained at Cat Island.
After hostilities ended,
Jack was detrained and
returned to his original
owner in Blooming Grove.
The dog has a tattoo
mark on his side.
The 100-lb. veteran went
to school daily and was
a welcome visitor at all
the stores and homes of
that community.
While asleep under an
automobile Monday, the
car was backed over him,
inflicting wounds and
hurts from which he died
Wednesday night in a dog
and cat hospital here.
Jack was interred in a
box for a casket
Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock in a corner of
the Garrison yard. His
little friends-the
school kids-gathered
quantities of flowers as
a token of their love
and esteem of the dog.
And not only kids are
grieving for Jack,
either. The grown ups
have raised enough money
to purchase a suitable
marker for the veteran.
Gillen brought Jack to
the hospital in his
pick-up truck after the
accident and carried the
body back to Blooming
Grove Thursday.
Notes:
Marker at the Blooming Grove War Memorial, Blooming
Grove, Navarro Co., TX
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