Baytown appliance repairman finds family heirloom in dryer filter

BAYTOWN, Texas -

A Baytown appliance repairman found a customer's late mother's wedding rings while fixing a broken dryer.

Keith Silvers, a repairman at Parry's Appliance Repair, said he noticed a shimmer coming from a pile of lint he'd extracted from Kathy Olive's dryer.

"As soon asI pulled the front off the dryer,I saw the first one," Silvers said. "Then afterI started cleaning through the lint,I saw thesecond one."

Nestled inside the huge pile of lint, was a diamond engagement and wedding band that belonged to Olive's late mother.

Olive said she didn't even know the rings were missing.

She thought they'd been in safe keeping since her mother died in 2009 and couldn't explain how the rings got into the dryer in the first place.

"I could've thrown the rings in the washer without evenrealizing I had done it," Olive said. "It was rightafter my mother's funeral, so I'm sure I wasn't think totally clearly at that time."

Regardless, Olive said she's just happy those priceless family heirlooms are back where they belong.

"Someone else could've taken those rings down to the local pawn shop and hockedthem," Olive said. "I would've never known what happen tothem. We appreciate what Silvers did for us. He's such an honest, caring person.It means so much to me to have those rings. If I'd opened up that bag and found them gone,I would've been heartbroken."

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Baytown appliance repairman finds family heirloom in dryer filter