Wedding band in wrong hands for 30 years

WEST POINT -- It's a long shot, but Martha Craig is really hoping that, more than 30 years later, Perry and Lynn are still around and wondering what happened to Perry's wedding ring.
She's got it. Call to identify.
The Standard-Examiner is leaving one critical number out of the date engraved on the inside of the ring's band, but Perry and Lynn should know their wedding date.
Craig feels bad because she's had the ring since the mid-1970s. She didn't know who she could give it to who would have a shot at returning it to its rightful owner.
She figures someone might see it in the newspaper, know someone, let them know, and back it goes.
Stranger things have happened.
Rings are regularly fished out of sewers or dug out of garbage dumps after being accidentally discarded or flushed.
A graduation ring lost by a Texas college graduate on a 1987 fishing trip was found in the stomach of a fish and returned to its owner last November.
In August, a Wellington, New Zealand, man found his wife's wedding ring 16 months after it was lost in Wellington harbor. He spent the whole 16 months diving into the water before he found it.
Craig hopes for a similar miracle.
The ring is a man's, with a fluted surface and an engraved edge. The inside reads "14K Artcarved" and "Perry & Lynn." The engraved date says they were married in August 1971.
Craig said she found the ring at a campground above Helper. She's fuzzy on precise dates, but as best she can remember, she and her family were heading to Ogden after a vacation. They camped at a state park near Helper and slept in.
"When we woke up, everybody had left the campground except us."
They had breakfast, "and just as we were ready to go, I went back to wash one of the kids' hands and found it," a gold wedding ring, by the outdoor tap in the campground.
They hung around a couple of hours, hoping the owner would drive back. With nobody else there to give the ring to, they drove back to Ogden.
Unsure who to give it to, she put the ring in her jewelry box. There it sat, through several moves, the death of her husband, another marriage and her retirement.
"What's amazing is my jewelry was stolen twice, but they never took this," she said. "I wonder if that means it's supposed to be found."
Frustrated, she finally decided to call the Standard-Examiner. She's hoping someone will see the accompanying picture, know Perry and Lynn, and call.