Security guard wins P48M lotto jackpot.
A security guard, the lone winner of the October 17,2011 6/45 Mega Lotto jackpot prize, claimed his prize on Monday.
The security guard, a 40-year-old San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan resident, was the winner of the P47,959,961.40 jackpot prize.
He used the winning combination of 9-7-22-6-10-41.
He said he will donate part of his money to his local church, while the rest will be used to pay his house’s mortgage.
The winner, who has 2 children, said he also plans to build a new business using his money.
The winner, a regular lotto bettor, placed two P10 “Lucky Pick“ (LP) bets. An LP bet means that the numbers were chosen by the computer.
The man who won the lottery , died from a heart attack that same day.
Donald Peters has got to be both the luckiest and unluckiest man on the day of his death. Well, unlucky because he suffered a heart attack and died, but lucky because he just bought the winning lottery ticket that provided for his family. The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony.
Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store 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.
Donald Peters usually bought the tickets for 10 weeks at a stretch, so the winning ticket he bought was among several that Charlotte Peters put aside as she, their three children and two grandchildren coped with his sudden death
$10M lottery ticket Donald Peters bought before death will help wife and family.
DANBURY, Conn. - One of Donald Peters' final acts has resulted in a lasting legacy of financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family.
On Nov. 1, Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store 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 Danbury yard.
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, 79, said Friday at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill. "I'm still numb."
Donald Peters had been purchasing lottery tickets for himself and his wife for two decades, picking his own numbers and making sure to sprinkle lots of odd numbers in Charlotte's as she liked.
He usually bought them 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 and her three children and two grandchildren coped with his sudden death.
In fact, she said she almost tossed the winning ticket in the trash.
"I was in the grocery store and I had it checked and they told me I was a winner," she said. "I had no idea how much it was."
She said more surprises came when she claimed her winnings Friday. Originally thinking she'd won $6 million, she was surprised to learn from lottery officials she'd won $10 million.
True to his wife's wishes, Donald Peters had picked a ticket in which five of the six numbers were odd: 02-07-09-11-27-33.
Charlotte Peters has 60 days to decide whether to take a $6 million pre-tax lump sum payment or stretch the winnings into 21 yearly payments of almost $477,300 each.
She does not yet know what she will do with the money, and plans to consult an accountant and lawyer.
Source:BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS
