Father’s ashes found among cottage cheese

Chelsea and her father, Jim. Supplied image.

They say you always find the thing you're looking in the last place you'd ever look – and for one Oropi woman that place is the cottage cheese section of a local supermarket.

Chelsea Campbell has been reunited with her lost pendant, containing her father's ashes, after it was located at a Tauranga Countdown store.

'This is so typical of Dad, he was always playing tricks,” she says.

The pendant is one of a set of three which she wears as a necklace – with her sister and their stepmother each sharing identical pendants.

Chelsea says two weeks ago she and her eight-year-old daughter had made a quick trip to the supermarket and it was shortly after this time, her daughter noticed it was missing from the chain.

'I was devastated when I lost it. We retraced our steps about three or four times and we couldn't find it anywhere.”

She says she's thankful to the amount of people who came on board and supported her to find the pendant.

'I made a post on my own Facebook profile which got shared around. So many people, especially strangers were so helpful, they let me know they'd have a look at the supermarket on their next trip.”

One business even offered to replace the pendant altogether – using some of the ashes from her sisters pendant.

However it was on Sunday, that the search came to an end.

'I got a message from a lady named Maree who worked at the supermarket we'd been at.

'She said ‘I was cleaning out the cottage cheese section and I found your Dad's pendant'.

'I was so shocked at first but we zoomed right over to get it. It's such a random place for it to show up. We hadn't been anywhere near that section – I have no idea how he got there.

'I actually did not think I would find him again.”

She says she's thankful to everyone who helped track the pendant down.

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