Completing a journey started over half a century ago: Man who received lost postcard 55 YEARS after it was sent by his parents will now visit aquarium pictured on the back



A 71-year-old Virginia man who received a postcard sent by his now-dead parents 55 years ago, is set to visit the Chicago landmark featured on it.



FoxNews.com reported that the postcard featuring a 2-cent stamp and the image of Chicago's John G. Shedd Aquarium never reached its intended recipient, Scott McMurry, nearly six decades ago.

Instead it wound up in Florida, some 400 miles off target.



Sleuth: Elizabeth Fulcher (pictured) received the old postcard in the mail at her home in South Daytona, Florida, about 400 miles off target

When Mr McMurry's story became known, officials at the John G. Shedd Aquarium depicted on the postcard invited him to visit the place his parents enjoyed nearly 60 years ago.



Andrea Smalec, a spokeswoman for the aquarium, told FoxNews.com: ' We invited Mr McMurry and his family so they can enjoy a place that his parents enjoyed 60 years ago, with some added attractions of course.'

Mr McMurry's parents, who have since died, sent him the postcard in 1957, when he was a junior in high school in Decatur, Georgia.



The prophetic message on the card read: 'We'll probably be home before this gets there.'

Landmark: The John G. Shedd Aquarium was depicted on the postcard that Scott McMurry's parents sent to him nearly six decades ago

Mr McMurry, a retired historian, said he first heard about the long-lost postcard when he was contacted by Elizabeth Fulcher, a schoolteacher from South Daytona, Florida, who received the old missive in the mail.



'It will be the first time actually seeing Chicago,' Mr McMurry told FoxNews.com. 'The only time I've been there is at the airport.'

As for the postcard, Mr McMurry said that he will have it framed.



Ms Fulcher told the Daytona Beach News Journal that the address on the postcard, Clairmont Avenue in Decatur, was similar to hers, Clairmont Lane in South Daytona.

Sleuth: Elizabeth Fulcher (pictured) received the old postcard in the mail at her home in South Daytona, Florida, about 400 miles off target

She posted a picture of the surprising find on her Facebook page, and one of her friends helped her find Mr McMurry.



Days later, an official from Mr McMurry's local post office in Falls Church, Virginia, hand-delivered the postcard written in his mother's hand.



'I guess they wanted to make sure it got to me this time,' Mr McMurry joked. 'How it got to South Daytona is beyond me.'

