KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Inside a Kalamazoo Goodwill warehouse that sorts more than 100 tons of donations every year, one tangled chain stood out.
A necklace, carrying the photo of a 12-year-old boy and engraved with two dates, caught the attention of employees who stopped what they were doing to look closer.
The name engraved on the back was Cameron Lee Madison, a 12-year-old from Otsego who died in a tragic accident in 2017. The necklace had been lost for years, until it surfaced this fall, just days before the anniversary of his passing.
“At first it was just a tangled ball of necklaces and Chris was gonna put them in a grab bag,” Kammie Daughtry, assistant manager at Goodwill, said. “I started to tangling them out and I noticed the picture, but I just kept on tangling. I hadn’t discovered it yet. And then it was my break time and Jessa took over from there.”…