Missing ring took a journey of 52 years
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Send to friendDAVENPORT, Iowa (CNS) — Walter Dray Sr. treasured his 1940 class ring from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He even wore it in place of a wedding ring, with the blessing of his wife, Peg.
When the Davenport businessman and father of eight lost the ring in 1957 at the bottom of a Wisconsin lake, he was heartbroken, but Peg assured him the ring eventually would be found.
She was right, but unfortunately did not live to see the joy the ring’s return would bring to her husband.
Fifty-two years after it disappeared, the ring is back on Dray’s finger. He believes it’s a gift from his late wife, with God’s blessings.
“The whole thing is sort of miraculous,” Dray said, happily wearing the gold ring with a blue stone.
The reunification of Dray, now 92, and his ring is a story within a story.
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