Marty Lost Her Handbag in High School in 1954. Then Demolition Crews Found It With a Prom Invitation Still Inside: “It Brings Back a Lot of Memories”

The year was 1954. Rosemary Clooney was at the top of the charts, and a high school junior in Jeffersonville, Indiana, named Martha Ingham lost her handbag.

She went on with her life. The handbag stayed put for 65 years.

Inside Edition told the story in February 2019, after the bag turned up during the demolition of her old school to make way for a new building. Her ID was still inside, so the school district knew whose it was. Finding her was the hard part…

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