Alabama Woman Finds Doctor's Lost Class Ring

MOBILE, AL - After 50 years, a physician from Tennessee has been reunited with his college class ring from the University of Tennessee, thanks to a south Alabama woman who found it with her metal detector.

According to a report by Alabama Media Group, Barbara Burgess found Dr. Stephen R. Sheppard's University of Tennessee Class of 1970 ring in front of a home in a subdivision behind the University of South Alabama.

Burgess found the ring buried under four inches of dirt, and contacted the University of Tennessee's Office of Alumni Affairs. Officials learned Sheppard had previously contacted the office about his missing ring.

Sheppard lost the ring about 50 years ago, when he was attending medical school and living at the house where the ring was found.

Photo from Dr. Stephen Sheppard