A Stranger Helped a Woman Track Down Her Missing Wedding Ring from a Facebook Post

When Teri Rowland and her husband, Randy Rowland, were driving from Wheatland, Wyoming, to their home in Sheridan, Wyoming, on March 3, 2024, she didn’t expect to lose one of her most prized possessions: her wedding ring. While the married couple was cruising along Interstate 25 in their truck, Teri took off her bauble—a silver band with elk ivory that matched her husband’s—to moisturize her hands. However, while Teri was lathering on lotion, Randy made the decision to pull over to let their dog out, which was the precise moment the ring went missing. “I didn’t even think about it and jumped out of the truck, and I’m sure the ring just fell right off my lap and right next to where we had parked,” she speculated.

After they made their pit stop, about 30 minutes of driving later, Teri noticed that her sparkler wasn’t on her left ring finger—but, naturally, she assumed it was somewhere in their vehicle. “I realized I didn’t have my ring on and started looking around the truck and couldn’t find it anywhere,” she recounted to Cowboy State Daily. “So, I said, ‘We’ll look for it when we stop.’”

Once the two of them made it home, they searched every nook and cranny of their truck, but unfortunately, their efforts were unsuccessful. Since Teri didn’t seem to have misplaced her ring in the truck, she finally gathered it must have fallen off at the exit. “Luckily, I knew approximately where we pulled off, and my husband knew exactly,” she said. “At that exit, I recognized it had an interesting patch of gravel. It had caught my eye that there was a cattle guard, and we parked exactly between the second and third reflector pole.”

After the couple nailed down the exact location, they found the spot on Google Maps and put a pin on it. Teri planned on driving back to the exit the following weekend to search for her special accessory, but Randy encouraged her to take action right away by posting about the dilemma on Facebook. Teri found a community page for Glenrock, the town where she misplaced her ring, so she asked to join. “I posted Sunday night, and I had a couple of people respond,” she shared. “I told them directions to exactly where we had parked. One of the ladies the next day said she was headed in that direction.” That woman was Brandy Dority.

Dority told the outlet that when she saw Teri’s post, she immediately sympathized with her because she had lost her own wedding ring a few years ago. “I know where she was coming from with not having something that means a lot to you,” Dority expressed. A year and a half later, her husband found the jewel in the pen where they keep their horses. 

Since Teri’s story resonated with Dority, she volunteered to track down the missing wedding ring based on Teri’s directions. “I just took my dog and went up to the exit ramp,” Dority described. “I’m a rock hounder, so I am always looking at the dirt and looking for fun, shiny things. It was pretty much where she said [it was].” Dority grabbed the ring and mailed it to Teri, who received it the following day. As a reward for her good deed, Teri gave Dority money via Venmo.

Since Teri and Randy received their wedding bands from Randy’s uncle, who has since passed away, they wouldn’t have been able to find a replacement, so being reunited with the ring was truly a blessing. “They are unique, and they are special, and I feel pretty darn luck to get it back,” Teri expressed. “Facebook can sometimes be frustrating, and it’s really nice when Facebook works for you in a positive direction.”