Jessie Moreau is devastated after losing a cherished gift from her late mother — a silver ring with three purple amethysts on top.
“I’ve worn it every single day, it’s like a piece of her for me," the local woman told OrilliaMatters.
"She died in March, so losing it now feels like I’ve lost her all over again. I’m really really just hoping I can find it again," said Moreau.
Moreau can vividly recall her mother giving her the ring in 2019.
“I remember coming home on my 21st birthday from a university course and she was sitting on the stairs waiting for me," Moreau recalled.
"It was two weeks before my birthday, it was Valentine’s Day,” she says. “She just looked so happy when I got home.”
That gift, she said, has become one of "the most valuable possessions" she owns.
Moreau works at Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School in Orillia and remembers wearing her ring throughout the day on Tuesday.
She left the school at around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday and raced across town to make a donation to the Value Village on Monarch Drive.
From there she went to nearby PetSmart to buy a bag of dog food.
“In and around those areas are the only place that it could be,” she says of her cherished piece of jewelry.
Moreau retraced her journey and revisited each stop to look for her ring, but did not find it.
If the ring is found, Moreau asks that it is dropped off to Patrick Fogarty. You can also reach Moreau through her email ([email protected]) with any information.
“I’m just really hoping that anybody who is reading the article or knows of anybody who has suddenly acquired a ring can take the time to understand that it has very little value to anybody else but me and can hopefully return it to me,” Moreau says.
Abigail Noble is an intern from Carleton University.
