KANSAS CITY, Missouri – A Kansas City woman is hoping to return a lost wedding ring to its owner or a family member. The ring is more than 73 years old.
“I walk through this parking lot every day, sometimes twice a day,” said Christine Overshiner.
She and her dog, Lily, have logged thousands of steps in the parking lot of the old K-Mart on NW 72nd Street.
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“My grandson and I would always go for walks and look for little trinkets,” she said.
But until a few weeks ago, she had never found anything with such sentimental value. It came not while she was out walking, but while she was rushing to the bus stop.
“I found it right there on the curb, glittering in the sun,” she explained.
She took the gold ring and went to the bus, where she realized that it was apparently a man’s wedding ring.
“The day I found it, I got on the bus and we were already driving off when I saw an elderly man on a bicycle, riding very slowly, as if he was looking for something on the ground. I hope it’s his,” she said.
If the original owner lost the ring, it is probably at least 90 years old. The reason for this is that the ring is engraved with two initials and most likely a wedding date from 1951.
“It’s special to me and it’s not even mine because I know someone got married before I was born and just lost it,” Overshiner said.
This parking lot near Plaza Middle School was the site of the Platte Woods/Northland Carnival in May, so it’s possible it got lost there, too.
A Facebook group with 29,000 members, mostly looking for lost wedding rings, with a smaller portion trying to find them. FOX4 checked the group, but no one stands out as a possible owner of the ring in question.
We also tried searching available newspaper clippings and obituaries for matches with the initials and exact wedding date, which Overshiner isn’t making public in hopes of returning the ring to its rightful owner. Since she doesn’t really use social media, she tried an old-fashioned method.
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“I came home from work, made a stack of flyers and handed them out. The next night I handed out two more and never heard from anyone again,” she said.
She hopes a FOX4 viewer is the owner or knows who it belongs to. A ring that may have been passed down to the next generation or worn for 73 years and whose owner now sorely misses it.
“Because they’ve had it for so long, I would be very sorry if they lost it after all this,” she said.
Please contact us if you have any information about possible owners of the ring.
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