Mellyrose
2009-01-03, 11:08 PM
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.
More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_ ... ery_legacy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_us/lottery_legacy)
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.
More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_ ... ery_legacy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_us/lottery_legacy)