Michele Fryman, of Middletown, said she knew Harry Frank Stigler, the name listed on the diploma that recently was found under a built-in drawer in a Middletown home.
Fryman graduated from MHS in 1970, and she “went through life together” with Mary Stigler, Harry and Jeanne Stigler’s only child. They frequently played together when their fathers, Harry “Whitey” Romans and Stigler, played golf at Wildwood Golf Club.
On Sunday, after reading about the diploma, Fryman called Mary Stigler-Jones, of Lebanon.
Stigler-Jones, 58, was “tickled to death” when told the diploma was found, Fryman said.
Stigler-Jones figured her father’s high school diploma just got lost over the years. She has only a few mementos from her father, so she’ll “cherish” his diploma, she said.
The diploma measures 21-by-16 inches and only has one small tear on the left side.
She has a doctor’s appointment in Middletown on Wednesday and she hopes to meet Toni Agee, who — along with her grandson, Xavier Coffey, 14 — found the diploma when they were cleaning out a drawer.
Agee is looking forward to reuniting the diploma with its rightful owner.
“I’ll probably cry,” she said. “I’m getting a little emotional already.”
Now if they can figure out how the diploma was misplaced in the Central Avenue home, which was built by Armco in 1947. Stigler-Jones said growing up in Middletown, they never lived on Central Avenue. She said her mother died in 1993, and her father passed away in 1979.
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