Joey Jones has one documented wife: Meg Garrison, whom the Fox News contributor married on December 30, 2012, at Marine Corps Barracks in Washington, D.C. No credible record supports a marriage before her.
That makes this a strange search to answer honestly. Every Joey Jones second wife profile online traces back to the same unsourced claim on celebrity-bio sites, none of which can name the supposed first wife. What the sourced record contains is one son from a previous relationship, one wedding, and one of the better love stories in the veteran community.
Who Is Meg Garrison Jones?
Meg Garrison Jones is the programs director of Boot Campaign, a national military nonprofit, and comes from Dalton, Georgia, the same town as her husband. Military service runs through her family: her grandfather Lloyd Keith was a World War II Army veteran, and her father Allan Garrison flew Huey helicopters in Vietnam as a first lieutenant, per Boot Campaign’s profile.
She earned an early childhood education degree from Dalton State College in 2010, a credential she now applies as stepmother to Joey’s son Joseph, whom the same profile quotes her calling “Joey’s miniature doppelgänger.”
From High School Ex to Wife: The Real Timeline
The two met at Southeast High School in Dalton in 2003, dated, and split after graduation: she went to college, he joined the Marines and became an EOD technician. They were not a couple on August 6, 2010, when Jones stepped on an IED in Afghanistan and lost both legs above the knee.
Two days after the injury, he called her from Germany. His own words, from the Boot Campaign profile: “When I got injured Meg was little more than an ex-girlfriend; we were barely exploring a friendship. I called her from Germany two days after my injury on a whim that she might come visit me and cheer me up. She came a few days later and has been by my side ever since… she is truly my rock.”
Meg spent the next two years alongside him through recovery at Walter Reed, and they married on December 30, 2012, in a military wedding at Marine Corps Barracks 8th & I.
Where the “First Wife” Idea Comes From
The second-wife assumption appears to rest on one real fact: Joseph, Joey’s son from a previous relationship, whom Meg helped raise as a stepmother. A child from before the marriage is not evidence of an earlier marriage, and none of the serious biographies record one.
The gap in sourcing is easy to test. His veteran-organization biography at Sentinels of Freedom and his speakers bureau profile cover his life in detail and mention no first marriage. The celebrity-bio pages that assert a first wife admit in the same breath that nothing is known about her, including a name. A wife with no name, no date, and no source is a rumor template, and it stays out of the factual record here.
Who Is Joey Jones?
Johnny “Joey” Jones is a retired Marine staff sergeant and bomb technician from Dalton, Georgia, who became a Fox News contributor in July 2019 after years as an unpaid guest. He has written two New York Times bestsellers: Unbroken Bonds of Battle, which spent 13 weeks on the list, and Behind the Badge, which debuted at number one, per his speakers bureau bio.
After his recovery he led programs at Boot Campaign as chief operating officer until 2017 and helped pilot a military transition program at Zac Brown’s Camp Southern Ground. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which builds mortgage-free smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans, lists him among its smart home recipients.
FAQ
Is Joey Jones from Fox News married?
Yes. Joey Jones has been married to Meg Garrison Jones since December 30, 2012. The couple wed at Marine Corps Barracks in Washington, D.C., after she supported him through two years of recovery at Walter Reed.
Who is Joey Jones’s first wife?
No credible source documents a wife before Meg Garrison. Sites claiming a first wife exists cannot name her; the confusion likely comes from Joseph, his son from a previous relationship that was not a marriage on any record.
How many times was Joey Jones married?
Once, as far as the public record shows. His marriage to Meg Garrison in 2012 is the only one documented by his official biographies, his employer profiles, or any sourced reporting.
Did Tunnel to Towers help Joey Jones?
Yes. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation lists Johnny Joey Jones as a recipient in its smart home program, which builds specially adapted, mortgage-free homes for catastrophically injured veterans.
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