Man Gets Lost Class Ring Back 45 Years Later

A Utah man who lost his class ring six months after he bought it is getting the keepsake back 45 years later, thanks to Facebook. Brent Aguirre said his mother was upset when the 1966 Bonneville High School graduate lost the ring. He assumed the ring was at the bottom of Pineview Reservoir, not far from the Great Salt Lake, and wrote it off when he left to fight in Vietnam. The military service turned into an Air Force career that led him through nine different moves across the world and finally back to his hometown of Ogden. Last fall Aguirre received a Facebook message from a couple in a nearby town, saying they wanted to get in touch with him. He brushed it off, but they contacted him again, telling him they’d found a ring with his name inscribed in cursive script. The husband said he can’t remember where he originally found it, and the wife said the keepsake turned up when she was cleaning out a desk drawer. Aguirre met up with the couple just after Christmas. More than four decades older, the ring no longer fits on his ring finger, but Aguirre said he’s happy to have it on his pinky. He is just disappointed that his mom was not around to see that he’d finally found it.