Man’s class ring returned 30 years after being stolen
Published: January 4, 2006
Thirty years have passed since someone stole Ron Everett’s high school ring, and as the years went by, he said he forgot about it, figuring it was long gone.
So he couldn’t believe it when his ex-wife, a secretary at Daleville High school, called last week to say the gold ring with a blue stone inscribed with his initials had been sent to the east-central Indiana school.
“What’s the chances she would be at work that day?” Everett, 54, of Daleville said. “What’s the chances she would be the one to open it and immediately connect it to me? It’s not damaged, no more than being ran over.”
Everett graduated from Daleville High 1969. A few years later, he returned from serving a tour in Vietnam and had lost weight, so he could not longer wear the ring.
Someone walked into his unlocked home in 1975 and stole a container of change with his high school class ring in it.
Everett said someone from Rowland Title Co. in Muncie wrote the school that an employee found the ring in a driveway a few years ago and passed it to a co-worker who was going to a Daleville High School reunion.
The employee who went to the reunion eventually left her job and the ring was found in her locker.
“Maybe the owner is looking for this,” the note to the school said.
The ring still doesn’t fit, but Everett said he plans to have it resized.
“You think sometimes things are just gone, out of your life forever and then somehow, they find their way back,” he said.
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