North Carolina woman reunited with purse lost 30 years ago

NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. — A North Wilkesboro lady was reunited together with her purse 30 years after it went lacking.

WXII reviews the place and the way it was discovered could also be onerous to imagine.

The Liberty Theatre has been in the identical spot in downtown North Wilkesboro since 1932, and for 30 years, so has a girl’s purse. The one cause the purse was discovered was due to renovations the brand new house owners have been making.

“As we have been demolishing this house, we have been taking out some items from the ceiling and it really fell out of the ceiling and actually hit certainly one of our guys on the pinnacle,” stated Mick Zulpo, co-owner of Liberty Theatre.

Zulpo tasked his spouse with discovering the rightful proprietor, and it didn’t take lengthy to seek out Sherry Church.

Church was 17 in 1992, when she stated she got here to the Liberty Theatre on a regular basis with associates. In the future, she misplaced her purse, which had a number of vital gadgets inside, together with her start certificates, an outdated job utility, a category schedule, make-up, footage and extra.

There was no cash contained in the purse, main Church to imagine somebody took her money then hid the purse in a closet upstairs, the place it received misplaced.

She stated seeing the purse once more introduced again a variety of recollections from highschool.

“A number of the individuals I didn’t even bear in mind, I’ve footage of,” Church stated.

“I feel somebody has perhaps taken it, gone by means of and brought the cash out,” she stated.

Church stored coming again to the theater all through the years, by no means understanding her purse was there all alongside.