By Fox23.com News Staff
TULSA, Okla. — A file folder full of precious keepsakes was returned to a local family more than 30 years after it was first discovered at the Tulsa County Assessor’s Office.
The folder is full of black and white family pictures, golf scorecards from the 1940s, a plane ticket from Oklahoma City to Tulsa and several postcards.
It was found by a woman named Tammy Ritter in 1995 while she was working at the Tulsa County Assessor’s Office. She asked her coworkers if anyone recognized the items, but had no luck identifying who they might have belonged to.
Ritter kept the folder as she moved through several positions, offices and buildings while she was working for Tulsa County.
As Ritter’s retirement year came closer, her supervisor who’s an amateur genealogist started doing some serious digging and eventually connected some dots that led to two families still located in the Tulsa area.
“It’s not actually their close family,” explained Mark Liotta, the Chief Deputy County Assessor. “They’re cousins. The people in the file are Libby’s great aunt and her daughter. They’re kind of teaming up with their memories to piece together who’s who and what’s what and how it’s connected to their families.”
The items in the file folder are believed to have belonged to Mary Louise Evers, but it doesn’t appear she ever worked at the Tulsa County Assessor’s Office.
So ultimately, how the file folder or its contents ended up where it was found remains a mystery.
