When Ruby Johnson graduated from Monroe Pinckney High School in 1961, her class ring was a reminder of her high school memories.
While hanging clothes out to dry at her mother's home two years later, she noticed her ring was gone.

She looked for the ring for years.

“I would go out and look for it couldn’t find it, it wasn’t there,” the Swansea resident told WIS-TV.

Her mother recently needed a plumber to dig a trench around the house. 
While digging, plumber Ryan Hatcher saw something gold in the ground. 
Hatcher, a plumber with McCall’s Plumbing & Remodeling, gave it to her mother.

Ruby's siblings called her with the news.

“They said ‘we found your ring,’ and I said ‘my high school ring?’” she said.

“Everybody I talked to said they would just stick it in their pocket and walk away and you know it’s not your ring to walk away with you know? It’s somebody else’s,” Hatcher said.

Ruby said she found it hard to believe after all these years her ring has been found.

She said she took the ring to a jeweler to be cleaned and it fits her perfectly.