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    Utah man gets lost class ring back 45 years later

    Associated Press – Fri, Jan 13, 2012

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who lost his class ring six months after he bought it is getting the keepsake back 45 years later, thanks to some Facebook detective work.

    Brent Aguirre said his mother was disappointed when the 1966 Bonneville High School graduate lost the ring, which is gold toned with a deep blue stone.

    "It's a beautiful ring," he told KSL-TV (http://bit.ly/zT8f9o). "I remember mom and dad forked out pretty good money for it."

    He assumed the ring was at the bottom of Pineview Reservoir, not far from the Great Salt Lake, and wrote it off when he left to fight in Vietnam.

    The military service turned into an Air Force career that led him through nine different moves across the world and finally back to his hometown of Ogden. It wasn't until the fall that Aguirre received a Facebook message from a couple in nearby Sandy, saying they wanted to get in touch with him.

    He brushed it off, but they contacted him again, telling him they'd found a ring with his name inscribed in cursive script.

    The couple still isn't sure where the ring came from. The husband said he can't remember where he originally found it, and the wife said the keepsake turned up when she was cleaning out a desk drawer.

    "It was unbelievable," Aguirre said. "I had written it off, and it was hard to believe they actually had my ring."

    Aguirre met up with the couple just after Christmas. More than four decades older, the ring no longer fits on his ring finger, but Aguirre said he's happy to have it on his pinky.

    He said he only has one regret: That his mother, once upset that her teenage son lost the valuable so quickly, was not around to see that he'd found it at last.

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    Information from: KSL-TV, http://www.ksl.com/

     

    8 comments

    • Al B Taken V
      Al B Taken V  •  4 mths ago
      Finally, an article that has a nice ring to it.
    • Gary Gilmore Jr
      Gary Gilmore Jr  •  4 mths ago
      Hey - I lost my class ring 45 years ago too! If any of you found it, please drop me a note on Facebook. My real name is John Smith.....
    • Rock
      Rock  •  4 mths ago
      This is a story that was released 3 months ago.
    • VIET VET 942
      VIET VET 942  •  4 mths ago
      My son's class ring was stolen and ended up in a pawn shop.
    • Richard F
      Richard F  •  4 mths ago
      Brigham Young swiped it.
    • The John
      The John  •  Falls Church, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      Break yourself fool!
    • mike oxbig
      mike oxbig  •  4 mths ago
      I lost my cack ring.
    • sj
      sj  •  4 mths ago
      they really found it durring her hysterectomy....
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