Texas Woman Thought Her 115-Year-Old Heirloom Wedding Ring Was Forever Lost in a Lake Until a Diver Found It: 'He Didn't Give Up on It'

A Texas female has been reunited pinch her wedding ringing aft a caller travel to a section reservoir near her emotion for illustration she’d ne'er spot nan gem again. 

JackO’Lynn Page shared specifications astir nan ordeal and her happy ending connected her Facebook page connected Monday, June 23. 

According to nan woman and mother, arsenic good arsenic KDFW, Page was spending nan time astatine Possum Kingdom Lake pinch her son’s shot squad complete nan weekend, moreover though, admittedly, she isn’t a instrumentality of reservoir activities. 

However, nan time was going by conscionable good because “we were pinch our friends & genuinely having a blast,” but it soon took a turn, Page wrote. “I realized my wedding ringing was gone from my finger!”

“Our squad jumped into action looking for it. Picture 11 shot boys pinch goggles, moms, dads grandparents everyone was looking! But nary luck. I was heartbroken,” she added.

Unable to find nan wedding ring, which was a 1910 heirloom per KDFW, 1 of nan fathers coming suggested they scope retired to a professional. 

Ryan Prigmore pinch Blue Diver Search and Recovery arrived and searched for a fewer hours, but was incapable to find Page’s ringing because “the upwind & h2o conditions that day were making nan hunt very difficult.” 

Possum Kingdom Lake is simply a manmade reservoir created successful 1941 pinch complete 17,000 aboveground acres and complete 300 miles of shoreline, according to its official website.

"I was getting thrashed by nan waves, but I gave my connection that I would beryllium backmost to support trying," Prigmore said, per KDFW.

The diver promised Page he would return Monday to proceed nan hunt erstwhile nan upwind was calmer.

“He kept his word," Page wrote connected Facebook.

Her station included a photograph of personification holding nan wedding ringing aft it was retrieved. A personification opinionated adjacent to diving instrumentality pinch nan reservoir successful nan region could besides beryllium seen successful nan picture. 

“I americium truthful thankful for him! He didn’t springiness up connected it. I had been preparing myself for nan past fewer days that it was mislaid and I wouldn’t spot it again. My ringing is truthful typical to me. And I had nary thought really I’d get complete this. I’m americium complete nan satellite knowing it’s coming location to me!!” Page’s station concluded. 

According to Blue Diver Search and Recovery’s Facebook account, nan statement “is nan only honorable to God 24hr dive work passim Texas.”

In May 2022, Prigmore helped a man find his "prized Rolex astatine Eagle Mountain Lake," per nan organization's reviews.