Woman Finds Husband's Love Letter Following WBBM Story On Lost Items From Washington Tornado
(CBS) -- An update on a story WBBM reported yesterday about possessions that were lost in the tornado a year ago.
Our story was posted on the Facebook page of the woman we interviewed, a woman who had picked up thousands of objects scattered by the tornado. Objects that once meant something to people.
The photo that accompanied the story was of a love letter she'd found. The letter tucked in a box with some seashells.
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Kimberley Pierman is the woman who lost the letter in the tornado and noticed the photo and story on Facebook. She lived in Washington a year ago.
"I'm shaking. I've been shaking and I've just been sobbing since I saw that this morning," she said.
The letter was written by her husband a month before they married in 1988.
"The reason that little box of shells and that note was so special to me was because my husband passed away in 2008 after battling cancer for eight years."
She says she lost almost everything of her husband's in the tornado.
The shells, Pierman says, she and her husband picked up on a beach in Turks and Caicos a month after his first cancer treatment.
November 15 was the anniversary of the death of her husband, Bryce Pierman. November 17 is the anniversary of the tornado, and the 18th was her husband's birthday.
"Like my sister says, 'I think this is a gift from him.'"
