‘The very last piece of us that I have’: Woman searching for late husband’s missing wedding band
By Kalea Gunderson
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WTAE) — A Cheswick woman is seeking the public’s help in finding a very sentimental necklace.
The necklace Diane Pent never takes off is a gold rope chain carrying her late husband’s wedding band, which she had reshaped into a heart after he died. Fred Pent passed away in April 2024, leaving behind his wife Diane, four children, and seven grandchildren.
That priceless symbol of her husband has gone missing, and she’s asking the public for help.
“It’s the very last piece of us that I have,” Pent said.
Saturday morning, it was gone.
“I looked in the mirror, and I was like…” Pent said as she gasped. “Then I just started looking everywhere for it.”
She immediately posted to social media that morning in an attempt to get the word out and began retracing her steps, which unfortunately was a path stretching across Allegheny County.
“I was everywhere,” Pent said.
Diane believes the necklace and ring may have fallen off between Thursday and Friday as she was running errands. She recounted stopping at several stores: MAC. Bid in Robinson Township, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods at the Waterworks Shopping Plaza in Blawnox, as well as MAC. Bid, Sam’s Club, Walmart, and Lowe’s in the Pittsburgh Mills in Tarentum.
“I took every part of my house apart. I’ve taken my car apart. I’ve gone through my grass, I’ve gone through everything. I just feel that when I was out somewhere, it must have just maybe grabbed on to something. I don’t know,” Pent said.
Now, all she can do is wait and hope this important symbol of her husband finds its way back to her.
“I would really like to have it back, and it means more to me than anything,” Pent said.
Pent asks anyone who finds it to call Gentilcore Jewelers in Fox Chapel or bring it in. That is the store where she had the ring re-shaped into a heart. She said the jewelers there will be able to confirm that it’s her ring and necklace and get it back to her.
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