The Remarkable Story Of A Ring, Lost In 1958, That Was Just Returned To Its Owner

The original owner, who is now in his 80s, had lost the ring back in 1958

What would you do if you bumped into a vintage collectable that belonged to no one you knew? Many people would prefer preserving it under their own care, but when Mary Jo Orzech of Brockport came across a ring in her ancestral home at Lackawanna last year, she vowed to leave no stone unturned in her search for its owner. The story of this ring travelling all the way from Ms. Orzech's parents' home to its octogenarian owner has been making waves on the internet, with people marvelling at the sheer determination and sleuthing skills of Ms. Orzech, not to mention celebrating the original owner finding his ring back, after more than six decades of it being lost. According to UPI, Ms. Orzech found the ring that belonged to a student of the 1955 batch of Lackawanna High School while emptying out her father's dresser in her parents' room. After the death of her parents, Ms. Orzech had to make multiple trips to her ancestral town of Lackawanna to clean out her parents' house. It was a class ring, with a blue stone and the initials "ELD" engraved into it. Armed with this barebones information, the State University of New York at Brockport librarian embarked on a pursuit of the original owner of the ring.