Lost wallet found inside Georgia cottage wall 66 years later

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A wallet found inside the wall of a cottage being renovated in Georgia was returned to the family of its owner 66 years after it was apparently lost.

Mary Kay Andrews, a New York Times bestselling author, said crews renovating her cottage on Tybee Island looked inside a wall earlier this month and discovered a wallet that appeared to have been there for decades.

The documents inside the billfold identified its owner as Melba Lanier, who lived in the home with her husband, Jack, when they were newlyweds in 1954.

Andrews' Facebook post about the discovery reached Jack and Melba's children, Sheryl and Kevin Lanier.

The siblings said the wallet will be kept as a family heirloom.

"It means so much and I'm definitely going to save it and put it in like a shadow box and remember it forever and then pass it down to my daughter and let her pass it down," Sheryl Lanier told WTOC-TV.