NICOMA PARK, Okla. (KFOR) – A caring neighbor and slightly police detective work reunited a household with a treasured Bible.
Terry Ward was mowing his garden final week when he observed one thing unusual – a Bible in his flower mattress.
“It rained all night time so it will need to have simply been there for a short while as a result of it wasn’t moist,” Ward stated. “Simply laying there with some screws and a few bullets.”
The Bible had the identify “Pearl Williams” and the yr 1946 on it.
Ward’s first thought: how he may get it to its rightful proprietor.
“Who’s Pearl Williams and the place does she stay?” he stated. “I requested Metropolis Corridor they usually had no report of her.”
So – he known as the Nicoma Park Police Division.
Contained in the Bible, they discovered a Del Metropolis tackle.
“So I contacted the Del Metropolis Police Division they usually glided by the tackle,” stated Lt. Mike Weiss with the Nicoma Park Police Dept. “Fortunately, the Bible’s proprietor – her son – nonetheless lived at that tackle.”
The household could not consider it had discovered its method to their dwelling.
“It was very emotional,” stated Lisa Bennett, Pearl’s daughter. “We misplaced my mother in October. In order that was laborious sufficient and now to search out out that I’ve Bible offers me a part of her.”
Bennett discovered lots of her mother’s treasured, priceless reminiscences tucked contained in the Bible.
“Her marriage ceremony announcement was within the Bible from the place she and my dad bought married,” stated Bennett. “She saved various things that have been essential to her.”
Bennett says she’s grateful for the generosity of strangers – and the police work – that will not have appeared like a lot to them, however means the whole lot to her household.
“She was a giant a part of my life so once I misplaced her I misplaced a whole lot of her,” Bennett stated. “Discovering little bits and items and protecting little items of her helps me rebuild that little loss in my coronary heart.”
Make sure you get contemporary headlines delivered to your inbox weekday mornings! You can even sign-up for breaking e mail alerts! KFOR.com/Newsletters
“That is the form of story that makes it good to be a police officer,” stated Weiss. “It makes it good to be an investigator that you could find any person’s household Bible and return it to them.”
The police are working to search out out if the Bible and different gadgets have been stolen from Williams’ dwelling after she died.
Powered by WPeMatico
