Owner Of Missing 1982 Class Ring Sought In South Kingstown

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI — Katie Alden Fagan was sitting in her office at the South Kingstown Housing Authority when the sun shining through the window hit the jar of odds and ends items just right. Mixed in among the miscellaneous keys and myriad forgotten trinkets was a bright blue stone that caught the assistant director's eye.

"You could see the light shining off the blue and I said: 'Hey, what's that ring?'" Fagan said.

When she pulled the ring out of the jar she saw it was a Class of 1982 graduation ring from the former Our Lady of Fatima High School in Warren. Fagan asked around and found out the ring had been found at Champagne Heights residence seven years ago and had been in the makeshift lost and found ever since.

"Someone turned it in and in the hustle and bustle of whatever was going on someone must have shoved it in a jar of random things," she said. "Since then, it's just been sitting here in a glass jar. It's a nice ring. Being a ring lover myself, I would love for the owner to have it back."

Fagan took her quest to return the ring to its original owner to Facebook. She said on Friday that she had received several messages from people who had lost their class rings, but had yet to get a lead on this ring's proper home. Fagan said the initials on the inside are worn, but might read "HHK" and that what she believes is a women's ring is about a size 9.

Our Lady of Fatima School was a Catholic school for grades 7 through 12 that closed in 2014.

"It's admirable that someone turned it in so long ago," she said. "Now we want the person who owned it to get it back."