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Kennedy: GPS class ring lost in the 1970s miraculously returned to owner

Sharon Faircloth of Macon, Georgia, found a GPS class ring in the 1970s. It recently found its way home to Dr. Mary Lawrence, a North Carolina physician who grew up on Lookout Mountain. / Photo contributed by Sharon Faircloth. Sharon Faircloth of Macon, Georgia, found a GPS class ring in the 1970s. It recently found its way home to Dr. Mary Lawrence, a North Carolina physician who grew up on Lookout Mountain. / Photo contributed by Sharon Faircloth.

By Mark Kennedy April 22, 2020 4 min read

All our sheltering in place is leading to some interesting unintended consequences. People are slowing down and noticing small, but significant, things that might have been hiding in plain sight.

For example, a grandmother in Macon, Georgia, who makes fishing nets for a living recently rediscovered a 1974 Girls Preparatory School class ring in an old jewelry box in her bedroom.

She decided to search the web to try to locate the owner, who, it turns out, is an endocrinologist in North Carolina who grew up on Lookout Mountain.

Sharon Faircloth, proprietor of Bountiful Seines in Macon, says she found the ring on the side of a road as a teenager in the mid-1970s while walking her dog down a busy street near a hospital in Brunswick, Georgia.

“I had just gotten my own class ring and I remember thinking how sad I’d be if I lost it,” Faircloth said.