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

[babylonsister]

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

Sun Jan 4, 10:16 am ET


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.

Donald Peters usually bought the tickets for 10 weeks at a stretch, so the winning ticket he bought Nov. 1 for the Dec. 2 drawing was among several that Charlotte Peters put aside as she, their three children and two grandchildren coped with his sudden death.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. That's it. I believe in magic and all things extraterrestrial, extrasensory and everything else.

No, not really.

What an amazing coincidence.

[enlightenment]

2. It is interesting, isn't it?

There was a BBC story yesterday about a woman who spent her 'last' 5 pounds (one has to wonder about that . . .) on a lottery ticket - and won a million. She allowed that she was going to buy her council house and a second-hand Mini.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Plate of shrimp.

It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.

[BlooInBloo]

6. mmmmmm.... shrimp......

[TroglodyteScholar]

7. You eat a lot of acid, Jeff, back in the hippie days?

You know how everybody's into weirdness right now...?

[applegrove]

4. I'm sure she'd rather have her husband. How shocking.

[Tashca]

5. I asked my wife what she would do in this situation

She said...."you remember that small piece of land you always wanted to buy?"
I said yes...
She said "I would buy it for you."

Now that was just mean....*LOL*

[xxqqqzme]

8. at 78, I'd take the lump sum.

Lots you can set up w/ a chunk of change like that.

[BlooInBloo]

9. You should always take the lump sum.

[Boojatta]

10. That's what was said by...

... the people who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

[BlooInBloo]

11. hee. I don't know what that means, but it sounds kinda funny.