A retired auto worker and his two adult children claimed a $314 million Powerball jackpot Monday after waiting two weeks to step forward.
"I know the world is going to turn upside down," said David Coterel, 65, of Riverside, Ohio. Coterel's daughter, Lynn Hiles, 46, said she has quit her job as a postal worker in Dayton, Ohio. Her 42-year-old brother, David Coterel, recently took a buyout from his job at an auto parts plant.
Neither has any children, and their mother, Dorothy, died of cancer three years ago.
The family decided to take the cash option on the prize from the Aug. 25 drawing, meaning they will collect $145,985,099 before taxes, Hoosier Lottery executive director Kathryn Densborn said.
The elder Coterel, 65, who is retired from General Motors, bought the quick-pick ticket the afternoon of the drawing.
"I lost it," he said of learning he had the winning ticket. "I'm an emotional person, but I really lost it."
The winning ticket bearing the numbers 2, 8, 23, 29, 35 and Powerball 19 was bought at a Speedway convenience store in Richmond, along the Indiana-Ohio state line about 100 kilometres east of Indianapolis.
The first person he called was his daughter, who quit her job as a nightshift postal worker in Dayton two days later.
Congratulations to the Coterels !!
Good things happen to good folks.
Please adopt me. I don't eat much. I sleep on the floor. I always do my chores without complaint.
Congratulations. Hopefully, I'll have my turn soon.
How many emails did you send to Lynn Hiles asking her to marry you?
Even if she would say yes, that would never happen. I'd be happy winning $1M, but I wouldn't mind winning tonight's Hoosier Lotto drawing for $46.5M.
Why would you want to live with a multi-millionare who would make you sleep on the floor, starve you and ask you do chores?
"I know the world is going to turn upside down"
Absolutely. So much more realistic than the winners who say "Everything is going to be the same. Maybe I'll buy a new lawnmower."
Is the reporter Canadian cause I'm pretty sure they do not use kilometers in Ohio?
Seems like the lottery is leaving out how many tickets people actually buy a lot lately. I highly doubt one, which is what the lottery would like you to believe. I am willing to bet most winners are getting 40-100 at least, not 1-5 even if it is possible to win with one ticket. Oh and it seems that anyone under 65 rarely wins much anymore.
Just love stories like these!
Notice also t hat the winning numbers are sold near the border of the state line;
Now......people who run state lottery's wouldn't cheat the citizens in the larger cities or the vast section of the state ( who support the lottery in the Millions of dollars) out of a large win would they ??????????People from all over the state got tickets and lost every dime -yet ....the winners show up on a terminal in the smallest town ,within walking distance from the state line ...wonder if they also have had multiple instant ticket winners also ????? would they by selling us the loosers .....!!!!!!!!!?????????
seems like I heard multiple stories like that here in NY .....winning tickets sold in obscurie places , where t he vast majority of people couldn't get there by Grayhound !!!
Congrats to the Coterel family! Enjoy your winnings and do things you had only dreamed about. Another one for the QuikPiks!
Wasn't it someone on this board who pointed out last week that the vendor was in a border area so the winner could very well have been from another state or a traveler passing through. Looks as though we have good intuitions (for everything but the winning number--LOL!!)
It was not only pointed out by an LP member but also by a local news reporter since it had happened before. Before Ohio had MegaMillions, a lot of the people buying PowerBall tickets in Richmond were from Ohio.