He’s ringing ’em home
Call him New Jersey’s “Lord of the Rings.”
Harry Boody, of Clayton, has a penchant for returning lost rings and even walks around with a metal detector to find them.
Most recently, he found a high-school ring in an elementary school playground near Williamstown.
Boody tracked the Williamstown HS Class of 1990 ring — inscribed with the initials “A-K-T” — back to owner Ayana Thurman, only to learn that she had died of cancer in September 2015 at the age of 43.
He used Facebook to contact Thurman’s family — who initially thought he was scamming them — but her 22-year-old son, Chase Tyrone Toliver, finally decided to meet him.
Boody, joined by a few family members, returned the ring to Toliver on Wednesday.
“Seeing that in person and seeing the engravings inside the ring and ring itself . . . it was a big honor,” Toliver told The Post.
Boody told Toliver he had once met his mother as she sold fans and scarves to raise money for breast-cancer sufferers.
She, too, had suffered from breast cancer, which later spread to her liver.
The ring was among several Boody has returned to their rightful owners. He still has a collection of rings whose owners he hasn’t been able to track down, Toliver said.
Boody could not be reached Friday.