Recently widowed woman finds her late hubby had just won $10 million lottery

[NewJeffCT]

Conn. man's last lotto ticket wins $10M for widow

DANBURY, Conn. – On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family.

Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.

On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband's death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.

"I'm numb," Charlotte Peters, 78, said at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_us/lottery_legacy

[flvegan]

1. Shame he couldn't enjoy it too.

But, she's at least taken care of without monetary issues (assuming she doesn't get stupid with the cash).

[supernova]

3. Yes,

So many people flip out when they win.

It would be adouble whammy to be widowed, that's really bad. But to be windowed and then go crazy with the winnings would be insult to injury. I hope the lawyer for the husband's will makes her get a financial planner.

[NewJeffCT]

4. heard on the radio

that the first thing she was going to do was speak with an accountant and an attorney, so it sounds like she has a good head on her shoulders.

[undeterred]

2. Good news, bad news.

How strange to have them coincide like that.

[Ptah]

5. Figures!

The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony.

"He'd be very mad, he just passed away and she won a lot of money," said Brian Peters, one of the couple's three children. "He'd say, 'Figures!'"