Good Samaritan finds wedding ring lost for years

Monday, July 16, 2012

photo A good Samaritan story out of Grundy County proves a diamond really is forever. The story begins on a local baseball field.

GRUNDY COUNTY, TN - A good Samaritan story out of Grundy County proves a diamond really is forever. The story begins on a local baseball field.

Two years after losing her diamond wedding ring, Shalonda Braden thought it was gone forever, until a few days ago, when she got an unexpected call. Braden is an avid softball player. She was practicing at the Gruetli-Laager Recreation Park in Grundy County two years ago. She put her then 17-year-old wedding ring in her ball bag sitting in left field for safe keeping. But when she went to leave, it was nowhere to be found.

"I was sick. It did, it made me sick and upset with myself," Shalonda Braden said.

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