Friendship Star

Marcia Snyder, a widow from New York, was waiting at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in July 2018 when she noticed her gold bracelet was missing. She and her son, Gary, searched for it but were unable to find it before they had to board their plane. Its loss was particularly distressing because on the bracelet were her husband’s class ring and charms engraved with her children’s first names. The bracelet was found by Penny Sands, a Californian walking through the concourse to catch her own flight home. Penny and her husband tried unsuccessfully to find the bracelet’s owner. This October they studied the class ring under a better magnifying glass and read “Williamsville” and the initials “RWS.” That led them to an online yearbook from 1955 which revealed Marcia’s husband’s name, Robert Willis Snyder. Robert’s obituary was also online, with a phone number for his funeral home. Marcia was finally reunited with her bracelet after fifteen months apart.