(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A woman posted a message on a social media page trying to find someone whose name surfaced in some photos and other memorabilia from the early-2000s.
This week, they connected.
The items were part of a collection a woman bought at an estate sale: photos, a thank-you note and St. Charles North High School varsity letters and patches.
And a name: Megan Horn.
“And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s me!’” said Megan Horn Hazelwood.
She found out about the Facebook post from her neighbor and then got in touch with the buyer who had sought help on the page “What’s Happening in St. Charles.”
“So, it was my grandmother’s estate sale,” Hazelwood explained. “And this is kind of a cautionary tale of what happens when you don’t have your affairs in order.”
She said her grandmother had three children, including her mother, and there was division. Another sibling was the executor.
“So my mom happens to be one of the people that got blocked out, and we weren’t able to recover a lot of things, which is just sad,” Hazelwood said.
“And I was kind of collateral damage.”
She is a microbiologist who does COVID testing. Her grandmother, Ruth Hill, died of a heart attack this spring at age 86.
Hazelwood said she is grateful to the Good Samaritan. She now plans to complete the project she and her grandmother never got around to doing: making a quilt with her varsity letters.
“I’ve got my nerd street credit back. I can make that quilt now,” she said, laughing.