Good things come to those who wait.
Joyce Wharton lost both of her parents in a small plane crash in 1959. The plane was to arrive in Seattle, but never made it, according to news reports. The crash site was located 15 years later in a heavily wooded area in Washington.
Locating the crash site brought some peace and closure to Wharton and her family.
But just this week, there was an unexpected call from a stranger who said that he had found her mother’s wedding ring. Nick Buchanan, who is a logger, found the ring while hiking with a buddy in the plane crash site area. He had the ring for 20 years before tech-savvy family members helped him use Ancestry.com to locate the ring’s rightful owner.
Wharton now lives in New Jersey, but thanks to the determination and kindness of a stranger, she will have the wedding ring that her mother wore. Wharton calls it her “Christmas miracle.”
