A WEDDING ring lost for six decades has been found – on the gravel driveway of a house that was not built until 14 years after the ring went missing.
Monica Le Feuvre (88) lost the ring in 1962 and, as the years passed by, believed that it would never be found.
She and her husband, Alan, who used to own La Hougue Farm, from where the aMaizin Adventure Park now operates, got married on 6 April 1959.
However, three years into their marriage, Mrs Le Feuvre (88) fell ill after the couple had their second child.
She explained that she lost a lot of weight, which made her fingers skinny, causing the ring to fall off her finger.
‘I was not sure where it went,’ she said. ‘One day I didn’t have it. I looked everywhere around our house but I could never find it. We gave up looking for it and eventually I got a new wedding ring.
‘I was so embarrassed when I had to go into the jeweller’s with my two children to buy myself a new ring.’
Earlier this week Mr Le Feuvre visited the tenants of a house which they own and which was built on the farm in 1976 – 14 years after the ring was lost.
They told Mr Le Feuvre that they had found a ring in the driveway, which turned out to be the wedding ring.
‘He came home and said ‘’Will you marry me?’’ and showed me the ring,’ said Mrs Le Feuvre. ‘I couldn’t believe it had been found. It is a miracle.
‘In those 60 years a house has been built on that part of the farm, lorries and trucks have come and gone, and yet no one has found it before.
‘The woman who found it said the shiny gold of the ring attracted her eye to it. It is still in really good condition and it has probably just been there waiting to be found.
‘I have got two wedding rings now and I won’t be losing this one again. I have got it on and squashed it between two other rings so that it does not fall off.’
