Wednesday, 13th September 2006 (4552 views)

A Floridian woman has had a gold wedding ring returned 50 years after she first lost it.

Beatrice Di Tondo, of western Lake Worth in Florida, lost her ring while washing nappies in the northern state of Massachusetts 50 years ago, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Last month a man from the 80-year-old's previous home town rang her up to say that the item of gold jewellery had cropped up in his garden.

"I've always enjoyed puzzles, and this was a good one," the ring's finder Joe Gauvain told the Florida-based newspaper.

Mr Gauvain, of Lynn, Massauchusetts, was handed the ring by his wife after she picked it up while mowing the grass. The couple live at Mrs Di Tondo's former house in the town.

The incident compares to a similar event in Chepstow, England, where a woman who had lost her gold wedding ring while gardening in 1969 had it returned in July of this year.

Beatrice Di Tondo and her husband Renato have lived at a mobile home park in the Florida for the last 20 years. They plan to celebrate the return of the ring when daughter Ann comes to visit them later this month.

 

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