US woman retrieves precious necklace lost in Iceland two months ago

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A woman from the USA lost a necklace that was very close to her heart two months ago in Iceland. With the help of US emergency services 911 and a tourist shop employee in Iceland she managed to find it again. 

This is reported by the Post Gazette. 

The necklace is not particularly precious in the material sense of the word but on it are the fingerprints and birthdates of the parents of Ashley Fusco, who both died in a car crash in 2008. Fusco, who has worn the necklace since she was 19 years old, lost it in Reykjavik and was devastated to have to return to the US without it. 

Hera Björk Þormóðsdóttir, a 22-year-old  employee of  Idontspeakicelandic, found the necklace at the store and put an ad on Facebook.  

"I found it in April for the first time but I didn’t really think much of it because customers forget things all the time so I just put it under the desk. Yesterday when I was working I saw it again and took a better look at it and saw how important this necklace must be for the owner and I started thinking that I have to find the owner,” Ms. Thormodsdottir wrote in an email to the Post-Gazette. “I hesitated at first because I am not a very public person, but I couldn’t just let it sit there and do nothing about it.”

Her post made it to the Facebook feed of Kimberley Robinson,  who works for 911 in Tioga, Pensylvania, and she managed to find the names of Fusco's parents by going through obituaries. 

“When I read the obituary and saw her dad was a 911 dispatcher — I’m a 911 dispatcher,” Ms. Robinson said.

She posted the link to the Fetchos’ online obituary at 6 p.m. Monday night. By 9:54 p.m., Mrs. Fusco found the original Facebook post and replied, thanking those who helped her find the necklace.

Mrs. Fusco said she was leaving a wedding reception at 9 p.m. Monday when she turned on her phone and saw a number of notifications on her Facebook.

“I was shocked at first to be honest,” she said. “I mean, it was two months ago when I lost it.”

Þormoðsdóttir said idontspeakicelandic is mailing the necklace to the U.S.

To Mrs. Fusco, the meaning of the necklace is more important than its value, and she appreciates everyone’s help in getting it back to Pittsburgh.

“It was really special to me,” she said. “I mean, it was my parents’ fingerprints and I wore it every day, so it’s really sentimental.”

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