It’s funny how life works out sometimes — how people often are in the right spot, at the right moment.

Danielle Wakefield, the assistant coach for the Nunaka Valley Little League softball team from Anchorage, was in Ketchikan for the Junior Division state softball tournament last week. And it was shortly after her plane landed on July 15 at the Ketchikan airport that she realized the diamond from her ring was missing.

The diamond has special meaning, as it’s the only thing Wakefield has from her late father. “I had nothing else from him,” she said.

“I got off the plane and went to the ferry, a...