Posted on 02/17/2020 11:33:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A Maine woman who lost her then-boyfriend's class ring in 1973 was reunited with the precious item after it was found buried in a park in Finland.
Debra McKenna, 63, said her then-boyfriend, Shawn, gave her the Morse High School ring before he headed to college in 1973 and she accidentally left it in a bathroom at the Porteous, Mitchell & Braun Co. department store in Portland only a few months later.
McKenna and Shawn married in 1977 and remained together until he died in 2017 after a long fight with cancer.
The woman said the ring was long forgotten when the Morse High School Alumni Association received a message from Marko Saarinen, who explained he had found the ring buried under 8 inches of dirt while he was using his metal detector in a forested park in Kaarina, Finland.
The ring bore the name of the school and the initials "S.M.," which the alumni association determined could only have been Shawn McKenna.
"There was a lot of weeping when I learned that someone found it and made the effort to reach out and find me," McKenna told the Bangor Daily News.
Saarinen put the ring in the mail and McKenna received it this week.
McKenna said she does not know how the ring ended up in Finland. She said her husband spent some time in the country, but it was 20 years after the ring was lost.
"Shawn used to say there's no such thing as coincidences," McKenna said.
So good that she got it back...Precious memories to help her after her loss...
Pamela Ann McNeese stole my ring in college.
I want it back.
My HS class ring was given to a former GF who never returned it in 1973........................
Man, if that ring could only talk........from a bathroom in Portland, ME, to buried 8” deep in a park in Finland. The mind boggles.
Ny ring is at the bottom of the Pacific in about 2300 feet of water...LOL
I wonder when the made for TV movie hits the Hallmark Channel.
I know exactly where my class ring is. I left it on the washbasin at an Exxon station along the interstate near the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota in 1975. How’s anyone seen it?
Nice story. My husband lost his high school ring. The finder also contacted the high school and it was returned. He also lost the tiffany wedding band i gave him. Never found. Then the tiffany band he teplaced it with. He stopped wearing rings after that.
it’s always in the last place you look
Swallows...coconuts...do the math.
Why do men take their rings iff to wash their hands? Hubby was always doing that.I take rings off when I go to bed.
Well, that’s if you are conservative...A liberal will keep looking because they never believe anything...
I lost my wedding band working in the yard digging and pulling weeds.
Found it 5 years later doing the same thing!.............
I didn’t take mine off...That’s why it’s at the bottom of the ocean...I was cleaning grease off with GOJO and it just popped right off over the side of the ship...
Did he travel to Finland with a “friend”? Was it at the bottom of a suitcase?
I heard about a guy fishing and lost wallet over the side of his boat...45 years later, he caught his own wallet...Fish had not spent any money...
https://www.wideopencountry.com/texas-fisherman-catches-old-wallet/
try mke land fill ...
I never take them off, now. I was young, but, you know, I hated high school anyway. My college ring is a different story. And it is safe and sound.
My wife left her wedding ring in a public shower at the marina just two weeks after we were married.
Miraculously, she got it back a week later when the person who had found it noticed my rather distinctive, matching, band and said “I found one just like that in the shower!”
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