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