A missing gold college ring found in Richfield Utah

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This story is incredible since thanks to the work of Richfield Utah resident Kelly Stewart who used a metal detector to find missing objects in his hometown. Kelly made an amazing discovery in February 2019 when he found a college ring that had the initials RWD that was from the Colorado School of Mines 1943 near his home that is near an abandoned home. Kelly wanted to find out who the ring belonged to so he went on Ebay to find the yearbook of the Colorado School Of Mines where he found the name of Richard William Deneke who is now 100 years of age and living in a nursing home in Georgia. When Kelly found that Richard is still alive, he sent him a message that he will mail the missing college ring to him directly. What I like about someone like Kelly is that is using his metal detector to locate missing items and return any item like a missing class ring that Richard lost in the late 1940s when he was living in Richfield since his employer was near his home at that time. I have heard of missing class rings stories that have been reunited with their owners for over a period of 20 years. 70 years is a very long time for a class ring to be returned to the owner.