A Gift from Finland

47 years after she lost it in Maine, Debra McKenna is reunited with her late husband's class ring. But now, she's trying to figure out how it ended up in a forest in Finland. Listen to her speak with @caroloffcbc. Read more, here: https://t.co/jno1GDYHI9 pic.twitter.com/5HiIz7zR0T

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When Debra Mckenna of Brunswick, Maine, was in high school, her boyfriend Shawn gave her his class ring before he headed off to college in 1973. She lost it soon afterward. But Shawn and Debra got married, had three children, and stayed together until Shawn died in 2017.

The ring was forgotten until last month when a sheet metal worker in Finland contacted the Morse High School Alumni Association. He wanted to locate the ring’s owner.

According to a Jan. 17 Finnish newspaper story, Marko Saarinen was using a metal detector in a forested city park in Kaarina, a small town in southwest Finland, when he found it.

With the school's name, year, and the owner's initials, it wasn't hard to pinpoint who the ring belonged to. McKenna got it back 47 years after it was lost! How the ring went from Maine to Finland remains a mystery. Read the whole story at the Bangor Daily News. -via Strange Company