It has been 40 years since Jim Flynn last saw his wedding ring.
He and his wife of 56 years had a pair of rings specially designed when they got marred in 1960. The rings were engraved with initials and the date they tied the knot.
The ring was lost in 1976 when the pair were spending the summer on on Lake George in the Adirondacks. It was where they had spent their honeymoon and a place they eventually bought a property on the western shore.
Mr Flynn's wedding ring was lost 40 years ago
Fast forward forty years to August 2015 when Peggy Rodman, whose family has a property next to that of the Flynn’s spotted something on the floor of the lake.
“I’m always thinking I’m going to find something really neat and I always find golf balls, or nothing really exciting,” Ms Rodman told the Post Star newspaper. “I’ve found sunglasses, a swim mask, nothing exciting.”
On that August day, Ms Rodman spotted something glimmering on the lake bottom. It looked like an overturned bottle cap. “I grabbed it. It wasn’t deep. I could still stand there,” she said.
It turned out to be a wide ring, bearing the date "2-6-60" engraved inside. Ms Rodman asked around and turned to a year-round resident from the lake, who learned it belonged to Jim Flynn, who now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaking from Oklahoma, Ms Flynn told The Independent both she and her husband, who still works as a doctor, were thrilled by the discovery.
“It was really special. It was something that meant a great deal to us,” she said.
