by KYW’s Hadas Kuznits
One family's perseverance in a landfill pays off as the hunt for lost family jewelry comes up successful!
The jewelry in question belonged to 83-year-old Susan Myers. She lost her husband last month a day before their 54th wedding anniversary. At the funeral, she felt woozy and her son Greg says the family decided to take her to Paoli hospital:
"We got her processed in pretty quickly and then there was a fair amount of commotion and my sister and brother showed up, and we decided to take her rings off."
Greg says he put the rings in a latex glove, knotted it and apparently lost it. His siblings ripped apart his home unsuccessfully looking for the jewelry. Eventually, they enlisted the help of Paoli hospital custodian Frank Dabney, who agreed to help them hunt for the items at the Chester County Landfill. After seven hours of intense hunting, they found the lost glove with the jewelry inside of it:
"All the guys at the dump were amazed, they were just like, people come out here to find big stuff and they don't find it -- and you find this stuff? It's really miraculous."
Greg says they couldn't have done it without Frank:
"He kept saying, 'I know my trash, I know my trash!' It was really quite hysterical."
(Kuznits:) "But he did!"
"Yeah, he did! He did!"
The best part is his mother has her wedding ring back with which to remember her late husband.
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