Local woman reunited with class ring

Sherrie Rohner took off her class of 1989 ring to put lotion on her hands.

“I set the ring on a shelf in the locker and I put lotion on my hands, and I reached for the ring and on the side of the lockers there were these little holes, like the size maybe bigger than a quarter. And you knew when you dropped something down there it was lost forever because it was just the black hole,” says Rohner.

She went to the office to see if there was any possible way for her to get her ring back.

“You could hear it ‘clink’ all the way down to the bottom and I went to the bottom. I went to the office and said this happened. I talked to the janitor and they said those locker banks are huge.”

The nearly one thousand pound locker bank couldn’t be moved, leaving her ring trapped.

Fast forward to 2018, the staff at Bonneville High School found the ring during remodeling.

“I put it up on Facebook thinking that people would share this out and get the ring returned as soon as possible,” says Benjamin Parker, Assistant Principal for Bonneville High School.

But they didn’t expect it to be so fast.

“People reached out and said ‘have you seen this? I think this is you.’ People I knew and people I didn’t know took it upon themselves to find me and give me back this ring. It was kind of cool,” says Rohner.

Now, Sherrie is reunited with her original ring, even though she still has her replacement.

“It’s been sitting in my jewelry box for 29 years, I don’t think I wore it much after I graduated, I might have worn it a little bit but I’m keeping this one on as a reminder as something cool that happened.”