FRESNO, Calif. — A Visalia woman is asking for your help after losing a sentimental piece of jewelry at this year’s Big Fresno Fair.
Melinda Reynoso says it may have looked like just any other bracelet to anyone who may have come across it.
But what’s inside it? Priceless. It’s a bracelet, that holds her mother Sylvia’s ashes.
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She told FOX26, “I just pray it just pops up somewhere.”
She is now hoping to find it somehow and is offering a $200 reward for the person who has it.
She took the following photo at the fair, while she was still wearing it.
“I went down on my phone to check the time and I realized the bracelet wasn’t on there. My heart dropped and it was late at night already when I realized when we got home from the fair, it was too late for me to go back that night to go look for it and I wanted to so bad,” she pointed out.
She last remembers having it in the following area of the midway that you see below this:
She says she called the fairgrounds to put it on their radar in case someone found it and turned it in.
She returned the following day and says she only found a fragment of the bracelet.
I was devastated again.
She says she just wants answers as to where it might be. Even, if that means somebody picked it up and tossed it.
“I just want to know cause people don’t realize… It doesn’t look like ashes. It just looks like a stone bracelet. That’s all it is, but deep down it’s ashes in there and I don’t think anybody will ever realize it until you tell them,” Reynoso explained.
Reynoso lost her mother to kidney failure back in 2022.
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She says this feels like she’s lost her mother all over again.
“When I would go travel to any kind of event, Pismo, anywhere, like we would go, I would put it on because my mom loves to travel. My mom’s a travel person. So I always carried her with me,” Reynoso said, “It made me feel…that I just had my mom tagged along with me because I know everywhere I would go, my mom was next to me. “
Reynoso says if anyone has information or has the bracelet to email her at Reynosomelinda@yahoo.com