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(CHRIS SISK | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) A wallet that was caught in Possum Kingdom Lake belonging to Martin Oswald. Chris Sisk led a fishing guide service last month where the group caught the wallet. Fisk turned to social media to seek more information. -
(CHRIS SISK | CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) The back of a wallet caught in March on Possum Kingdom Lake belonging to Martin Oswald. Chris Sisk managed to connect with Oswald's wife and send her a lost memory of her late husband.
A wife was reconnected with her late husband after an unexpected catch from a guided fishing service on Possum Kingdom Lake in March brought up his over 25-year-old wallet.
Chris Sisk, who runs the fishing guide service Krazy Fins, had a group on PK Lake for a fishing trip Sunday, March 23. When the group stopped at a location on the lake about 25-feet deep, they made the discovery of a lifetime.
“We were just drifting through there with a slow drift, bouncing some slabs off the bottom and we hooked up to what looked like a turtle at first, because it was all brown and covered with mud,” Sisk said. “I netted it and I said, ‘Oh, it's a wallet.’ We opened it up, saw his ID, and then his medical badge there.”
The wallet belonging to Martin Oswald was thrown into the boat and on their return back Sisk spoke about the discovery with Jesse Swanson and other friends.
“What blew my mind away was the condition that the wallet was in, considering it had been underwater for at least 27 years,” Swanson said.
Swanson did research into the background of the owner of the wallet and found an article where someone with the same name had died in a plane crash in Mineral Wells.
Oswald was one of two individuals who died Aug. 4, 2004 in a plane crash near Mineral Wells Regional Airport, according to an investigation report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
Sisk turned to social media seeking any information regarding the owner of the wallet or anyone who could help in locating a family member.
“I posted on the Possum Kingdom (Facebook) page... and then I posted it on a Mineral Wells Facebook page, because that's where his address was,” he said. “...We posted it on the page and a couple of people said they remember working with him and it was him that had passed away in the plane crash.”
A previous guest who had used his fishing guide service searched for Oswald’s wife and managed to find her phone number and that she moved to Katy, Texas.
“I made a call to her and from the time I started talking to the time I stopped talking to her, she was in tears just so joyful that there was something of his still around all this time,” Sisk said. “She sent me her address, and the next morning I went down to the local post office and sent the wallet to her.”
Only two days after having the wallet, Sisk sent it Monday, March 25. After receiving the wallet, Oswald's wife Wendy shared a moment with Sisk regarding some of the dated items included within, such as a Blockbuster card.
It was by sheer chance that a wallet made it into the hands of Sisk and it was through his efforts that Wendy got to share another moment with her late husband over 20 years after his passing.
