At InspireMore, we’ve seen more than a few lost wedding bands come back into the hands of their owners. There was the story of 82-year-old man in the tiny German town of Bad Müenstereifel. Two and a half years after his ring went missing, the elderly man was harvesting carrots from his garden when he found the ring lodged around a carrot he plucked from the ground.
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Then there was the husband that found his wife’s missing ring hidden in a small box in their house. The thoughtful man decided to surprise his wife, and so proposed to her with the very same ring she’d lost 15 years before.
This time around, a widower named David Penner was shocked when a wedding band he’d also lost 15 years ago found it’s way back to him. A Christmas tree farmer was riding atop his tractor planting trees for the season when he noticed something shiny in the ground.
“I thought it was a miracle,” Penner said of the farmer’s find.
The farmer, named John Wyckoff, decided to track down the owner. After a promising lead led him to email Penner, Wyckoff invited the man out to the farm to inspect the ring.
Wyckoff was determined to find the true owner of the memento, so although Penner knew the date inscribed on the ring’s inner band, the farmer insisted Penner go get a copy of his wedding certificate to prove it. “That’s no problem,” Penner remembered saying.
After proving his ownership, Wyckoff gladly gave the ring to the grateful widower, “This was a piece to come back to me, in her absence,” Penner said. His wife had died a few months before the incredible moment.
Thankfully, Penner’s token of devotion to his late wife came back to him, over 15 years after the ring slipped from his finger.
See more about the recovery in the video below.
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