Boy's sharp eyes turn up ring lost 5 years earlier
First-grader honest, too — he gives the band back to owner

SPANISH FORK -- Ann Osborn was heartbroken when she lost her gold wedding ring five years ago.

Thanks to the sharp eyes of a 6-year-old, the keepsake was found last week."I was in the gym with my second-graders and I threw the ball and my ring went with it," said Osborn, a teacher at Larsen Elementary School. "We looked and looked, we swept the floor, but it was gone."

Searchers even pulled up part of the carpeting but couldn't find it.

The ring, about 75 years old, was a wedding band that once belonged to her grandmother, she said. Osborn isn't sure what the 14 karat gold band is worth, "but it had great sentimental value to me."

The floor has been replaced since the incident so she thought she would never see the ring again.

Then last week, first-grader Colby Carter saw a shiny object in the tracking of the accordion doors in the gym. When he picked it up he discovered it was a gold wedding band.

The child turned it in to school secretary Jean Boswell, who remembered Osborn losing the ring five years earlier and returned it to her.

"It was an unexpected happening in my life and a happy one," said Osborn, who commended Colby for his honesty.