Kingston, Ont. woman reunited with stolen family guitars

A Kingston, Ont. woman is breathing a sigh of relief now that two guitars that belonged to her late father and brother-in-law have been found after a break and enter last December.

Kingston, Ont., resident Donna Mountenay is celebrating after learning that the two vintage guitars stolen from her garage six months ago during a break and enter have been recovered.

“It’s overwhelming,” Mountenay says. “I mean, I literally thought I would never see my dad’s guitar again. I wouldn’t see either one of them.”

It was last December that she realized someone had been in her garage, and a few months more to realize the extent of her loss.

Two vintage guitars were stolen, one belonging to her late father and the other to her husband’s late brother.

“The Regent belonged to my father. My mother had bought it for him as a birthday present back in 1969, and all of us kids learnt to play on that guitar,” she says.

“Dad treasured that guitar. So the thought of, after 53 years of it being in the family, someone else’s hands being on it was killing me.”

Her father’s 1964 Regent was so well-loved, it even held his fingerprints in the neck of the guitar.

“There’s no money you can place on memories,” says Mountenay. “And when you don’t have those people with you, it becomes all the more precious.”