When Melissa Mitchell’s mother lost three diamond rings — including her wedding and engagement rings — she took a long shot online.
“I’m posting here in hopes there is an honest person who found them and is looking to reunite them with their owner,” Melissa posted to the Kamloops Network Facebook group.
Melissa’s parents, April and John Mitchell, have been married more than 30 years.
On March 7, they were driving to a downtown restaurant with friends when April took off her rings to put on some hand cream, all the while chatting in the back seat and forgetting about the jewelry.
“They had fallen out when they got out of the vehicle,” Melissa told KTW.
One ring is yellow gold with diamonds shaped into hearts, but the other is especially significant — consisting of white and yellow gold, the diamond engagement and wedding rings fused together.
John had replaced them just last year.
“The wedding and engagement set my dad had specifically made for my mom,” Melissa said.
“They were pretty special.”
The 32-year-old business owner posted the plea to find the rings to several other online groups tied to the River City, having seen “happy endings” before on social media.
Then, her mom got hers.
Someone noted online their cousin had found rings outside the restaurant that weekend, Melissa said.
“I got out and they were just in the dirt,” Samantha Haws, a 24-year-old Kamloops resident, told KTW when asked how she found the jewelry in the parking lot.
Her first thought?
“Turn them in,” Haws said without hesitation. “I just did what I hope someone else would do.”
Haws gave Melissa all of the information she needed — including the day and time it happened and who was working — and a manager tracked down the rings.
“She [Haws] was just so nice,” Melissa said.
And her mom’s reaction at being reunited with her rings?
“She was crying — tears of joy,” Melissa said.
“It worked out really well.”
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