Truck driver, colleagues track down owner of jewelry found in N. Lima

By ELISE FRANCO

Three USF Holland employees went the extra mile to return the jewelry.

NORTH LIMA — When Karen Scull lost several irreplaceable pieces of jewelry en route to a vacation with her husband, she came to terms with the fact that she may never see them again.

It came as quite a surprise when she returned home many days later to a message on her answering machine: Her lost treasures had been found.

“I found them at the Pilot gas station in North Lima,” said Gary Speelman, driver for USF Holland Trucking Co. out of North Lima. “They were on the ground, and I found them as I was walking into the front doors.”

Scull, 53, of Kirsey, Pa., said she thinks the jewelry — a watch with her wedding ring, a wedding band that belonged to her good friend, her mother’s 25th-wedding anniversary ring and her college class ring attached to the band — fell out of her purse when she and her husband, George, stopped at the gas station.

She said she didn’t even realize they were missing until they arrived at Red Feather Lakes, Colo., for vacation, because she thought they were packed away in a suitcase.

“I was angry at myself when I realized they were missing because I remembered seeing them the morning when we left” her brother-in-law’s house in Canfield. “I need to put them in a safer place,’’ Scull recalled saying to herself.

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