Missouri woman reunited with Lewis-Palmer ring

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The Lewis-Palmer High School class ring that was able to be reunited with its owner.

Drew MacFarlane, Ranger Review Reporter

With an unlikely playground finding, a Kansas woman’s determination, and the work of Rho Kappa and a few Lewis-Palmer students came together to reunite a Missouri woman with her long-lost high school ring. Rachel Robinson, a young woman from Kansas, found the ring when she was just eight years old at a playground, and kept it throughout the years until she thought to return it to its original owner.

Her search led her to Lewis-Palmer, the high school from which the ring had come. Robinson then contacted the school, and Tana Lucido, a sponsor of the social studies honor society Rho Kappa. She presented the information to Rho Kappa members at a meeting, and a few of them took it upon themselves to find the ring’s rightful owner. Leading the way was Brian Tims, a senior at Lewis-Palmer.

“All we had to go off of at first were the initials ‘L.C.’, the ring size, and the year 1957,” senior, Tims said.

From there, a search through a 1956 yearbook led Tims to Linda Croslin, a junior at Lewis-Palmer at the time. Tims and his friends, senior Brad Ellis and junior Ryan Earl, were then able to pinpoint the since-married Linda Flesher through her father’s obituary. They also used the White Pages in their search. Finally they were led to Missouri, where Linda Flesher now lives.

Lucido was able to put Robinson in contact with Flesher, and in a final act to reunite Linda Flesher with her lost ring, Robinson drove to Kansas City, Missouri, to return it in person.

The story of the returned ring was soon ran in publications across the nation, and even overseas.

“I was surprised, actually, at how far the story had travelled. I’ve been contacted by Fox 21, and even saw the story ran in the UK Daily Journal,” Lucido said.