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Hotel Goes Above and Beyond to Recover Guest's Family Heirloom

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09 Nov 2013 42 views
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Hotel Goes Above and Beyond to Recover Guest's Family Heirloom
Taryn Thompson was astonished and grateful when strangers helped find her lost family heirloom. It was a special ring that her grandmother Louise Thompson left her after she passed away in 2007. As reported by WLEX 18 News, the western Kentucky student was attending a wedding in Lexington when she stopped into the Gratz Park Inn to freshen up. That's when she must have lost the ring… but, no one at the hotel could find it.

Taryn Thompson was astonished and grateful when strangers helped find her lost family heirloom. It was a special ring that her grandmother Louise Thompson left her after she passed away in 2007. As reported by WLEX 18 News, the western Kentucky student was attending a wedding in Lexington when she stopped into the Gratz Park Inn to freshen up.

That's when she must have lost the ring… but, no one at the hotel could find it.

When the heirloom failed to appear in the sink traps, they thought there was only one other place that the ring could possibly be: the trash in the dumpsters.

— WATCH the VIDEO at WLEX-18 News

— READ the Reuters story via Yahoo News

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