The News Courier in Athens, Alabama  May 20, 2013  Alabama man's
class ring found decades later  By Bernie Delinski Associated
Press  — FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Rick Shayne Fossett loved wearing
his wife's class ring.  "When Rick and I started dating, he
always wore my class ring," his widow, Lola Fossett, said. "He'd
say, 'I had a class ring in high school and I loved it, but I
lost it.' So I said 'you can have mine,' and he wore it on his
pinky. He always kept it on, all the way until he passed away."
Last week, Lola Fossett slipped Rick's class ring on her finger.
Fossett, a popular Shoals disc jockey in the 1970s who went on
to gain a successful and nationally recognized reputation in
radio consulting, died of lung and brain cancer in 2003.  How
the 1965 Plainview High School senior ring made it to his widow
is a story that started shortly after Rick Fossett graduated
from the high school in the northeast Alabama town of
Rainsville.  A talented musician with a great deal of musical
knowledge from an early