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Moline man returns home Christmas Eve to find late wife’s wedding ring stolen

A Moline man returned home Christmas Eve to find his late wife’s wedding ring was gone. He wants it back so he can give it to their daughter. Jack Heber d...

A Moline man returned home Christmas Eve to find his late wife's wedding ring was gone. He wants it back so he can give it to their daughter.

Jack Heber didn't want a Christmas tree in his house.

"It's been a rough year," he said.

In March, his wife Rachel died.

"She got sick and just started shutting stuff down," said Heber.

Rachel was the mother of their twins. A boy and a girl who were born three months premature.

"Without her and raising the kids and you know Christmas is here and you know I'm almost out of this year, it's gotta get better, it's gotta get better and we went home Christmas Eve and found somebody had been in the house," he said.

That somebody took some cash and his late wife's wedding ring that was stored in a funeral home bag in their bedroom.

"It was something since the kids are so young, it's something I wanted my daughter to have, it's something when she gets a little bit older and wouldn't lose it, she could look down at her hand and know that that was her mom's and it was just part of mom and you know, somebody's taken that away from her," said Heber.

A picture of the ring has been shared on Facebook and online swap pages.

"It pretty much just ruined Christmas for the kids and ya know it really ruined it for me," he said.

This dad wanting back the ring he picked out for his wife.

"It struck me as her. When she'd come in the room, she'd light a room, her eyes and she'd just have that gleam and sparkle in her eye," he said.

So he can give it to their daughter.

"I just really want it back, I want it back for my daughter."

 

 

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