Reader pleads to have lost rosary returned to mother

Dear editor:

My mother, Phyllis Bate, was shopping at Wal-Mart on March 8 around 7 p.m. She paid for her groceries, put her things in a cart, and went to her car. Somewhere between the checkstand and her car, she "lost" her purse. I say "lost" because when she made her next stop, her purse was not with her.

She went back immediately, but it was not to be found. No one had turned it in at the store.

It wasn't the $11, her glasses, the checks (which are now cancelled), the credit card (which is now no good), or her driver's license (which expires on her birthday this Saturday, March 15).

In her purse was a new set of rosary beads sent as a present from my aunt for her upcoming birthday.

We have scoured the area around Wal-Mart, hoping whoever wanted the $11 would have discarded the rest. Keep the money! Please do the right thing and make the rest of the contents of the purse available to the rightful owner. Put it in an empty cart in the Wal-Mart parking lot for some honest person to turn it into the store. Drop it in front of a store; throw it in a parking lot in town.

Please give her back the sentimental treasures that mean something to her for her birthday.

Her prayers would be answered.

Marianne Bate