Lost Ring Returned Decades Later
Published: September 25, 2004
It’s often the first memorable piece of jewelry you ever buy — your high school class ring. A woman who lost her class ring three decades ago incredibly got it back.
For the past 30 years, a Marinette County lake has held the key to a small mystery. In the summer of 2000, Linda Engels, a deejay for a Green Bay radio station, was snorkeling with a friend in Thunder Lake. They made an unexpected discovery.
“We got to the surface and I looked at what it was and it was a class ring,” Engels said.
“Engels knew the ring meant something to somebody but she didn’t know what to do with it, so she just hung on to it. Then, this summer a friend suggested an idea.
Engels put in a call to a nearby radio station in Menominee, Michigan. She went on the air with her story and the ring’s description.
Mike Wolfe hosted that show. “Right away we got a call,” he said.
“Somebody heard it on Party Line that there was a class ring found from Wausaukee with the initials J.Q., and she called me,” Engels said.
That call led to Friday night’s reunion of sorts. “J.Q.” — now Jolene Huc — came armed with thank-you cards from her class and some roses when she met Engels to get back what she lost as a junior in high school back in 1974.
“Two weeks had it, went to throw a Frisbee, and the ring went off — plunk — in the water, and it was gone,” Huc recalled.
Huc called it “a little mini-miracle about never giving up no matter how badly the odds seemed to be stacked against you.”
Engels learned, “Never give up hope. Never.”
Huc says every time she drove by Thunder Lake, she always thought about that lost ring.
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