Their love story is complete, it just took 60 years.
A Kentucky woman discovered her late husband’s wedding ring 61 years after he lost it — right in front of his family the whole time.
When Barbara Gregory married the love of her life, Glenn, in 1963, the couple planted a tree near their home in the Bluegrass State to celebrate their future union.
But just two months after their wedding, Glenn suddenly lost his ring while putting up the foundation for his mobile home, causing havoc for husbands everywhere. According to WLKY in Louisville.
They continued to search, but the ring was gone.
“We started looking immediately but never found it,” Barbara said.
But the tree grew, reaching into the sky, becoming a towering monument to their love.
“Over the years, as that tree grew, so did our marriage,” Barbara said. “It just kept growing and growing.”
Many years later, Glenn passed away from cancer last December, just a few weeks after his 80th birthday.
The family buried him on the farm they owned for 50 years, and Barbara hired a gravestone company to erect a headstone in his cemetery.
As they were working, Jonathan Searcy of Searcy Monuments noticed a gleam of metal peeking out from the dirt.
He dug it up and pulled it out of the ground: it was Glenn’s wedding ring, which had been lying there for more than 60 years, right next to the tree that Glenn’s wife and their young lover had planted.
“The odds are one in a million,” Searcy told the station, “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. God works in mysterious ways.”
The couple were teenagers when they first met on a double date, and both were out with other people.
“He was a really good friend,” Gregory said of her then-date.
“But when I met Glenn, I said, ‘Let me date him,'” she says. “He set me up on a date with Glenn, and that’s how we met.”
Years later, Gregory said he was happy to be able to hold his loved one’s wedding ring again.
But one more ring is still missing: her absent-minded partner has a penchant for losing things, and has lost two other rings over their many years together.
After her husband died, she decided to keep her third wedding ring.
“It’s here. I kept it. I didn’t send it to him,” she said with a laugh. “I thought he might lose it on the way to heaven.”
