Our funny Easter afternoon

We had a funny thing happen on Sunday after our Easter lunch. Our daughter had found a website for unclaimed funds in Ohio and found my name about 12 times. When I saw it was PNC bank I said I'd bought stock in a small savings and loan in our neighborhood in the 1970s, it had been sold several times, and finally was bought by PNC. The recession in 2008 happened and I started getting 10 cent dividend checks which I ignored. About 15 years ago I went to a branch of PNC and said I wanted to sell my stock, but I had to have something that verified I had owned the stock and they said they didn't have my address! Of course I'd been getting ten cent checks at my address. So, from these uncashed checks the state now owes me $2.94!  She filled out the paper work and sent it (probably took 30 minutes). Then she decided to check our deceased son Phil's name and she found one entry for Pay Pal for $10. When she filled out the claim, it was much more complicated because my husband is his beneficiary. We had to look up his SS number and the name, address, birthday and also the  marriage date and birthday of his former wife (required)! I don't keep that information lying around, so my daughter messaged his former wife. Meanwhile I found my genealogy book and I did have it, so we messaged her back saying forget the first message. Then she messaged us and we said Happy Easter! That probably took an hour. So, in a way, he was with us on Easter--the sort of humor Phil would love.

A blog is useful for checking things like this.  I found it in my blog for October 25, 2008.

"National City Corp., Ohio's biggest bank, acquired Buckeye Federal Savings and Loan of Columbus in 1991 which had a small branch in the Tremont Shopping Center close to our home. This week it agreed to be bought by PNC Financial Services Group for more than $5 billion. I had opened a savings account at Buckeye Federal because it was convenient (within walking distance). When depositors were allowed to buy stock, I did--maybe 10 shares. I think until it was bought by National City, I used my dividends to buy more stock. This was my first adventure into investing, and I know exactly where the money came from and the sad, sad story of where it has gone (subprime mortgages). My last dividend check was thirty-two cents, less than the stamp to mail it."