Their love story came full circle – it had only taken six decades.

A Kentucky woman found her late husband’s wedding ring 61 years after he lost it – and it was right under her nose the whole time.

When Barbara Gregory married the love of her life, Glenn, in 1963, the couple planted a tree near their home in the Bluegrass State to celebrate their future together.

But just two months after their wedding, Glenn suffered the curse of all husbands when he suddenly lost his ring while laying the foundations for their mobile home, according to WLKY in Louisville.

They searched and searched – but the ring was gone.

“We started searching immediately and never found it,” Barbara said.

But the tree thrived and became a mighty monument to their love, towering towards the sky.

“Over the years, our marriage grew as the tree grew,” Barbara said. “It grew and grew.”

The years passed and Glenn died of cancer last December, just weeks after his 80th birthday.

The family buried him on the farm they had owned for 50 years, and Barbara hired a gravestone company to erect a headstone at his gravesite.

While working, Jonathan Searcy of Searcy Monument Co. noticed a metallic sheen protruding from the ground.

He dug it up – and pulled something out of the ground that turned out to be Glenn’s wedding ring. It had lain undisturbed for more than sixty years right next to the tree that he and his wife had planted as young lovers.

“The odds are one in a million,” Searcy told the station. “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. God’s ways are unfathomable.”

When the couple first met on a double date, they were still teenagers – but both were dating someone else.

“He was just a really good friend,” Gregory said of their date at the time.

“But when I met Glenn, I said, ‘Get me a date with him,'” she said. “He got me a date with Glenn, and that’s how we met.”

Years later, Gregory said she was happy to have her lover’s wedding ring back in her hands.

But another ring is still missing – her absent-minded partner had a habit of losing things and misplaced two different rings over the many years they were together.

After his death, she decided to keep the third wedding ring.

“It’s in here – I kept it, I didn’t send it to him,” she said, laughing. “I thought maybe he might lose it on the way to heaven.”