Mary Grams from Alberta, Canada, was weeding her garden in 2004 when she thinks she lost her diamond ring
But this week, the woman's daughter-in-law uncovered the missing item as she was pulling up carrots on the family farm
Mary has had the ring since 1951, a year before she married her husband, Norman
A wedding ring is an age-old symbol of marriage. The shape of a ring, a circle, represents infinity. Just like the love between two people, it's never ending. When someone is given a wedding ring they're expected to wear it every day for the rest of their lives. When they look down at it, it reminds them of the commitment they made to the love of their life. Unfortunately, sometimes rings get lost. When this happens, it's absolutely heartbreaking. Especially when the ring doesn't make a reappearance. In this unbelievable story, a woman finds a surprise while digging in her garden.
Mary Grams from Alberta, Canada was weeding her garden in 2004 when, she thinks, she lost her diamond ring.
But this week, the woman's daughter-in-law uncovered the missing item as she was pulling up carrots on the family farm.
Mary Grams spent over a decade wondering where her diamond engagement ring had disappeared to.
The 84-year-old said she likely lost the ring as she was pulling a large weed from her farm in central Alberta in 2004, prompting a frantic search. “We looked high and low on our hands and knees … we couldn’t find it. I thought for sure either they rototilled it or something happened to it,” she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “I cried so many times.”
At that point she had been wearing the ring for more than half a century, ever since her husband-to-be, Norman, had given it to her in 1951.
When days of searching proved fruitless, she decided not to tell her husband. “I didn’t tell him, even, because I thought for sure he’d give me heck or something,” she said. “Then I finally went to the jeweller and bought a cheap ring. I only told my son, I didn’t tell nobody else.”
Her husband – who died five years ago, shortly after the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary – never noticed the swap, said Grams.
Her daughter-in-law, Colleen Daley, found the ring while harvesting carrots for supper with her dog Billy at the farm near Armena, Alberta, where Grams used to live. The farm has been in the family for 105 years.
Daley said while she was pulling the carrots and noticed one of them looked strange. She almost fed it to her dog but decided to keep it and just threw it in her pail. When she was washing the carrots she noticed the ring and spoke to her husband, Grams’ son, about what she had found.
They quickly called Grams. ‘‘I said we found your ring in the garden. She couldn’t believe it,’’ Daley said. ‘‘It was so weird that the carrot grew perfectly through that ring.’’
Grams said she was eager to try the ring on again after so many years. With family looking on she washed the ring with a little soap to get the dirt off. It slid on her finger as easily as it did when her husband gave it to her.
‘‘We were giggling and laughing,’’ she said. ‘‘It fit. After that many years it fits.’’
Losing something can be absolutely devastating. Especially, when it's a symbol of love between two people. We're so glad Mary Grams got her ring back.