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    Widow finds late husband’s wedding ring near a tree they planted just after they got married — 61 years later

    By Steve Janoski,

    3 days ago

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    Their love story came full circle — it just took six decades.

    A Kentucky woman found her late husband’s wedding ring 61 years after he lost it — and it was right under their noses the whole time.

    When Barbara Gregory married the love of her life, Glenn, back in 1963, the couple planted a tree near their home in the Bluegrass State to celebrate their future together.

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    Barbara Gregory and her late husband, Glenn, who lost his wedding ring 61 years ago on their Kentucky farm. WLYK
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    Now, 61 years later, the ring is back in Barbara’s hand after a worker found it near a tree they planted just after they got married. WLYK

    But just two months after their wedding, Glenn suffered the bane of husbands everywhere when he suddenly lost his ring while setting a footer for their mobile home, according to WLKY in Louisville.

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    They searched and searched — but the ring was gone.

    “We immediately started looking and never found it,” Barbara said.

    But the tree flourished, and became a towering monument to their love as it yawned toward the sky.

    “Through the years, as that tree grew, our marriage grew,” Barbara said. “It kept growing and growing.”

    The years passed, and Glenn died of cancer last December, just a few weeks after his 80th birthday.

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    Barbara told local news networks that her husband actually lost two rings during their time together. WLYK

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    The family buried him on the farm they’d owned for 50 years, and Barbara hired a monument company to erect a headstone at his gravesite.

    During the job, Jonathan Searcy of Searcy Monument Co. noticed a glint of metal peeking out from the soil.

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    Jonathan Searcy of Searcy Monument Co. found the ring when he was erecting Glenn’s headstone, which is on the family farm. WLYK

    He dug it out — and plucked from the earth what turned out to be Glenn’s wedding ring, which had sat undisturbed for more than six decades right near the tree he and his wife had planted as young lovers.

    “The odds are a million-to-one,” Searcy told the station. “It’s like finding a needle in a haystack. God works in mysterious ways.”

    The couple were just teenagers when they first met on a double date — but they were both out with someone else.

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    “He was just a really good friend,” Gregory said of her date at the time.

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    The two met when they were just teenagers, and were married for 61 years before Glenn’s death. WLYK

    “But when I met Glenn, I said, ‘Get me a date with him,'” she said. “He got me a date with Glenn, and that’s how we met.”

    Years later, Gregory said she’s happy to have her beloved’s wedding ring back in her hands.

    But there’s still another ring missing — her absent-minded other half made a habit of losing things, and misplaced two different rings during their many years together.

    After he died, she decided to hang on to the third wedding band.

    “It’s in here — I kept it, I didn’t send it with him,” she said with a laugh. “I thought maybe he might lose it on his way to heaven.”

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