A ranch hand in Kerrville, Texas in the US discovered a wedding ring at the site of a 1972 helicopter crash and turned his find over to the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office. After some investigation, Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer found that the ring had once been worn by Staff Sergeant Bruce Dunn, who was one of two US Army Reservists killed in a helicopter crash while on a flight from Corpus Christi, Texas to El Paso, Texas.
Hierholzer was able to locate Linda Sue Sasser, who had been Dunn’s wife at the time of the accident. After she identified the ring by the inscription inside the band, Hierholzer returned it to her at her present residence in the state of Utah. Sasser thanked Hierholzer for providing her and her family with closure for an event that she described as “horrific.”
Dunn and another reservist, Jerome Green, were killed in the crash, which happened on March 1, 1972. The couple had no children and Sasser remarried about five years after the accident. Hierholzer was able to locate Dunn with the help of a few volunteers who scoured Internet ancestry sites for information about Dunn. Sasser had added her first husband’s information to an online family tree just two months before the ring was discovered. In addition to the ring, Hierholzer also forwarded two coins and parts of a watch that were found with the ring at the crash site.
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