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What a way to go.

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Widow Wins Lottery on Spouse’s Ticket
DANBURY, Conn. (Jan. 3) - 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.

“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 she thought she had won $6 million
but was surprised to learn from lottery
officials she’d won $10 million.

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.

“I’ve always wanted a Corvette, but I don’t
think I’ll buy one. I’ll stick to a small car. I
might go to Mohegan Sun,” she said, referring
to the casino in Connecticut. “I’m going
to go home and sit and think.”

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!’”
 

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I heard this on the news today. He provided for her even in his demise. Girl friend wanted a corvette... she killed him in the bedroom I'll bet. :wink:
 

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WoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW. Well he will really R.I.P.
 

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At least she will be living good. Too bad it won't be with her longtime husband. And that's very sad.
 

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