When Chas Pyle, the caretaker of the North Canton Middle School in Ohio went in for maintenance, he was asked to fix the lockers.
While he was doing the same, in the middle of the locker and the wall behind it, he found a red leather purse that he took straight to his colleagues out of excitement.
After checking through it a little, it was found out that a student named Patti Rumfola who was a student of the former Hoover High School lost the purse back in 1957.
Yes, the bag was more than 60 years old and so they went through the stuff inside it.
They found some tickets, photographs, membership cards of various clubs, 9 coins, a lipstick, a hand mirror, some other cosmetics and some stationary.
The school then tracked down the family of Patti Rumfola with the intention of returning the bag to its rightful owner only to find out that she died in 2013.
When the school had reached out to the family of Patti, all her 5 children had gathered for spring breaks. When they were handed the purse, they decided to open it together to take a look at their mother’s teenage life.
Her kids went through the bag and decided to keep one coin each in the memory of their mother who had left 9 coins in her purse.
The school had taken permission from her family to take pictures of the belongings they had found inside the purse and shared them on Facebook.
The pictures have since received more than 39,000 thousand likes and the numbers are only growing. It was just like a time capsule only to be found out after almost 60 years.
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