A heartwarming reunion! A treasured 30-year commemorative coin was reunited with the widow of a Carrollton firefighter this week.
firefighter's widow got a chance to meet the department member who restored a bit of her late husband's legacy.
Paramedic Lee Holbert was a registered nurse, SCUBA diver and pilot. In 2020, his 30th year with the department, he was commended in a ceremony during which he received the special coin. "He hands me everything to take home except for the coin. I’m not sure why, but he kept the coin. The next morning he came home and said, ‘Well, I didn’t have that coin for very long,’" recalled Holbert's wife, Lisa. "He said, ‘Troy took a hard turn and the coin was just gone.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said it rolled, and it went down into a crack, and it’s somewhere in the streets of Carrollton.
"I figured we’d find it when we got back, but it was nowhere to be found. I took things apart, took the seat apart, looked everywhere, but apparently it fell down further than I could see apparently," said Smith.The coin is now back from the abyss thanks to mechanic Nick Anselmo. He spotted something shiny when he worked on the engine.
"I went, ‘Oh cool a coin, it’s a cool little fire coin.’ When I flipped it over, and I saw the 30 years, I was like, 'Oh man, someone misses this," Anselmo said.
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