Man Won Lottery on Ticket He Bought the Day He Died

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on January 4, 2009 at 11:52 am

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 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. [...]

"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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