Texas Man Waters This Veteran's Gravesite Every Day

A widower from Texas has been watering his late wife’s gravesite every day for more than a year now. When he found out who was buried near her, he did something heartwarming.

Jake Reissig, of Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston, recently saw a woman crying at a gravesite near his wife’s. He went to talk to her and discovered that she was crying for her husband, who served in the U.S. Air Force and died in 2010.

A local obituary shows that Joseph Villasenor passed away unexpectedly in 2010. He served 16 years in the Air Force.

Soon after, Reissig began watering the veteran’s grave too. Reissig’s son Roger shared the story on his Facebook page:

“It’s been over a year now since Mom left us to go to her Heavenly home. Dad goes out to the grave to visit her twice a day. He has a routine where he clips some roses from his rose garden at home and delivers them to Mom. Then he hooks up a hose and waters her grass twice daily. With the recent drought, and hers being one of only graves getting watered, you can see that Moms stands out from the rest and is very beautiful,” he wrote.

“One day while watering he saw a young lady down from him kneeling at a grave and crying uncontrollably. Dad went down and talked with her and found that her husband had been an SSGT in the US Air Force and lost him in 2010. After they talked and shared stories, she thanked him and left. Dad decided to Honor this soldier and start watering his grass along with Moms daily. He does it every day. He said it is the least he can do for him after all that he sacrificed for us,” he wrote.

“You can see his green grass in the pictures down from Moms. Very thankful for this young Man’s service and very proud of my Dad and what he does to Honor him. Love you Dad!”

The post has been liked more than 20,000 times on Facebook.

[PHOTO: Courtesty of Roger Reissig]