Purse lost in 1957 is found in Ohio middle school. Take a look at what was inside

A custodian at a middle school in Ohio discovered a purse wedged between a wall and a line of lockers last spring. It had been there since 1957.

Chas Pyle was reattaching trim at North Canton Middle School when he discovered a small red purse stuck between the lockers and the wall, CNN reported.

After posting photos of the purse to Facebook, the school learned the long-lost purse belonged to Patti Rumfola, who’d lost it in 1957.

Patti died in 2013, WTVD reported, but the purse was returned to her five children who got together during the fall to take a peek inside the bag and learn a little more about their mother who graduated Hoover High School in 1960, the school wrote in a Facebook post.

The purse proved to be a time capsule for the life of a 1950s teen, with Patti’s library and YMCA membership cards still inside. The purse also contained several ticket stubs to high school sporting events, a number of school sports schedules and a stick of beech-nut gum.

There were also a number of photos inside — some scribbled with notes including one from “Bonnie” who called Patti a “swell girl and friend” — as well as the normal accoutrement you’d expect to find in a student’s bag: pencils, erasers, a ruler and a comb.

The purse also contained an “Evening in Paris” powder compact and two tubes of lipstick in the shade “pastel pink.”

As far as cash goes, there were nine coins inside the purse and each of Patti’s children took one as a keepsake.

“In one of the photos, you will see nine coins from Patti’s wallet,” the school wrote. “Each of her five children kept one of the wheat pennies as a token of remembrance of their mom.”

This story was originally published February 18, 2020 at 6:23 AM with the headline "Purse lost in 1957 is found in Ohio middle school. Take a look at what was inside."