Kelvin Foskey Jr. was playing basketball when he spied the ring and scratched it from the earth, his father Kelvin Foskey told the Cherokee Tribune.
The two decided to search for its owner. They found Robert Anderson in a 1960 Dublin High School yearbook but the man had since died and relatives led them to his widow, Joan Anderson of Canton.
She was thrilled to have the ring back.
"It's just a blessing to make someone that happy," Kelvin Foskey said.
Joan Anderson says her husband had gone searching for the ring in 1961 near the spot where it was found earlier this month.
