Woman Reunited With Lost Engagement Ring

She found a ring on Christmas, hidden between phone books wrapped in a box. Then, she found her boyfriend on one knee, proposing marriage at his family's holiday party. But the happiness was short-lived, because just days later, the ring disappeared. Just five days after receiving it, the oversized engagement ring Teresa Wellendorf wore so proudly around her fiance's antique store was gone. Teresa Wellendorf said, "I panicked, an antique store, I ran all over and backtracked where i'd been.

"When she couldn't find it, she had to tell her fiance, Heath Epperson. Heath Epperson said, "I told her it was going to be okay because she was panicked and freaking out on me."Wellendorf also said, "I wasn't expecting him to be mad or anything he just, 'Calm down, lets look,' so we did."But they didn't have any luck. Epperson mentioned, "By the end of Monday night it was kind of somber attitudes. You kind of been through everything at that point."Well, not everything. It turns out a shopper who visited the antique store on New Year's Eve found something unexpected in her bag. Cindy Rigsby replied, "And I thought oh my gosh, who dropped a ring in here, it looks like one of those rubber gumball machine rings and I picked it up and I said, oh no, this is real.

"When Rigsby of Stugis found it, she called all the places she had visited. When Rigsby called the antique store, Epperson picked up the phone. Epperson said, "Relieved, it was a good thing, extremely good, to get the call from an honest person."Rigsby said, "And he described the ring to me and I said, how soon can you come and get it and she was here in this place within 45 minutes... She came in the door she looked at me, I said Teresa, she said Cindy, she was crying and I said here ya go."Wellendorf said, "I gave her a big old hug and couldn't say thank you enough."Rigsby said she put herself in the person who lost the ring's shoes and knew how bad she would feel and decided it had to go back to whoever owned it.