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Ohio man’s lost class ring found nearly 40 years later

UPDATE @ 3:57 p.m. (Feb. 22)

The ring has arrived in the mail and Rusy Clark, of Troy, is reunited with his class ring that he lost 37 years ago.

EARLIER REPORT

A class ring lost 37 years ago on a Navy submarine in Hawaii is being returned to its long-lost owner.

Rusty Clark, of Troy, graduated from McClain High School in Greenfield, Ohio in 1979.

From there he entered the Navy, and went to work on a submarine in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

"I was working on a submarine with oily hands and I heard a clunk,” Clark said. “I thought I just lost my ring; I’ll never see it again.”

Clark thought the ring would be pumped into the ocean, never to be seen again.

On Thursday, Clark’s daughter Kayla Otis got a Facebook message from a man in Corpus Christi, Texas that had found the ring among his late father’s belongings.

“It surfaced all the sudden,” Clark said.

The ring is now in the mail back to Ohio.

The man who found the ring said his father worked for the Post Office in Hawaii at the time and would often take a metal detector to beach in his free time.

“It shows never give up on nothing,” Clark said.

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