--- description: An Oklahoma widow and her daughter who spent their first Father's Day without dad this year released balloons and a message at his grave site title: Balloon Released at Father's Grave Amazingly Comes Back Home image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Balloon Released at Father's Grave Amazingly Comes Back Home by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 2, 2015 10:16 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 2, 2015 10:16 PM CUT An Oklahoma widow and her daughter who spent their first Father’s Day without dad this year released balloons and a message at his grave site — and may have gotten a “message” back. The pair was stunned when — after leaving the cemetery, running a few errands, and driving 25 mile back home — the balloon’s note showed up at their house. Sandy and Saige Seibold are still mourning the loss of Johnny Seibold after he died following a battle with pancreatic cancer earlier this year… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/balloon-released-fathers-grave-flew-25-miles-familys-home-n402721?cid=par-time-article%5F20150802 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981594/balloon-father-grave/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981594/balloon-father-grave/"},"headline":"Balloon Released at Father's Grave Amazingly Comes Back Home","datePublished":"2015-08-02T22:16:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:55.667Z","description":"An Oklahoma widow and her daughter who spent their first Father's Day without dad this year released balloons and a message at his grave site","url":"https://time.com/3981594/balloon-father-grave/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981594/balloon-father-grave/","name":"Balloon Released at Father's Grave Amazingly Comes Back Home"}}]}] ```