Finder of jewelry box searches for its owner
By NATALIE CHANDLER/Biloxi Sun Herald, USA
nchandler@cableone.net
PASCAGOULA – Days after losing her Pascagoula home, Jeannie Faucett found what she believes is another treasure stolen by Katrina.
Now, she’s hoping to find its owner.
A wooden jewelry box, its bottom drawers missing, surfaced among the debris in Faucett’s back yard on South Belair Street. Inside, she discovered a small gold necklace and three rings.
“I was still in shock from the storm,” Faucett recalled. “I was horribly sad when I picked up other people’s belongings in my yard.”
Faucett suspects the box washed onto her property from an area south of her home, such as Washington Avenue or Beach Boulevard.
One of the rings holds a pearl, surrounded by several diamonds and sapphires. Another ring sports seven multicolored stones, what Faucett refers to as a “mother’s ring,” which holds the birthstones of a woman’s children.
“How do we know it wasn’t a Mother’s Day gift?” she wondered.
Faucett has no idea if the jewelry is valuable, and she doesn’t care.
“Whether or not it’s the Hope Diamond,” she said, “it’s somebody’s, and they should have it back.”
The jewelry’s sentimental value, she believes, means more to its owners.
“If they lost this, they lost a whole lot more,” she said. “And anything we can give them back is something.”
