Lost wallet found 63 years later

Published: Nov. 22, 2009 at 9:58 PM

BANNING, Calif., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Renovation on a California movie theater led to the discovery of a wallet lost during earlier work, probably in 1946 or 1947, the wallet owner's ex-wife said.

The wallet, which still had family photos inside, belonged to the late Clyde W. "Lefty" Mize, who lived in Banning, Calif., where the theater is located, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Saturday.

"He must have been doing lathe work there," his ex-wife, Gloria Burke Round, 87, of Santa Maria, Calif., said of Mize, who died in 2005 at age 85.

Melody Mize, Clyde and Gloria's daughter, said her mother learned of the wallet's discovery from a series of phone calls after the find was announced on a television news report.

Clyde and Gloria moved to Banning from Los Angeles County after World War II so Clyde and his brother, Lloyd, could join their cousins in their plastering work in Desert Hot Springs.

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