| Winner | Prize (in millions) | Draw Date | Location Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tommy L. Adams of Jacksonville, North Carolina. | U$9.2 | Dec. 27, 2000 (Powerball) |
Adams, an Allied Van Lines driver, purchased his ticket during a stop in Rayne, La. at the Frog City Travel Plaza. |
| Nine family members (six from Delaware, two from Maryland and one from Georgia), who range in age from late 30s to late 80s. | U$9.2 | Dec. 27, 2000 (Powerball) |
C & C Country Maid in University Plaza Shopping Center in Newark. |
| Donna & Lloyd Martin. | 2 | Dec. 13, 2000 | MacPherson's Deli and Bakery in Liverpool, N.S. |
| 14 Sandia National Laboratories security officers. From Albuquerque: Robert Adkins, Cecil Blancett; Duane Carr, 43; Ernest Curley, Nelse De Loach, Dwayne Hayden, B. Mark Madrid, Jeffrey McCullough, Vernon Valdez and James G. Young; from Belen, Charles Tabet, 37; from Bosque Farms, Mary Batson; from Estancia, Almer Dial; and from Placitas, Felix Silva III. | U$70.3 | Nov. 29, 2000 (Powerball) |
Circle K convenience store at 1200 San Pedro SE. |
| Brian O'Brien, a 41 year-old Delta Halifax employee. | 2 | Oct. 18, 2000 | Ticket Wicket in Halifax, N.S. |
| Sieu Em Ly, 80, is sharing with her 11 children. | 1 | Dec. 27, 2000 | Mac's Convenience Store on 87th Avenue in Edmonton, AB |
| Sandra, 42, and husband Clifford Thorsteinson, 45. | 2 | Dec. 20, 2000 | Quick Pick at West Kildonan Pharmacy located at 1750 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB |
| Walter Vogt, 78. | 1 | Dec. 6, 2000 (Western 649) |
Quick Pick at Marlborough Stationery at 92-3800 Memorial Drive, North in Calgary, AB |
| Whenever the LOTTO 6/49 Jackpot is high, Sue Ho buys a ticket. Sue and husband Rui have three children. This win follows several smaller wins throughout the past year. On May 25th, she won $1,450 playing PICK 3, and on September 8th, $2,209.80 playing LOTTO 6/49 and again on October 2nd winning $1,145. | 3.3 | Dec. 2, 2000 | 7-Number Combination Quick Pick ticket at Super Food Store on 118 Ave, N.W. in Edmonton, AB |
| When Gerald Fedunec opened his birthday card with a LOTTO 6/49 ticket inside, the message read, "if you win ... you have to share!" He is splitting the windfall with his close friend Lynda Baird, whose words foreshadowed their windfall. She and her husband Robert purchased a card and Five Quick Picks en route to Gerald's 72nd birthday dinner. The fateful ticket was purchased a mere twenty minutes before sales were cut-off for this draw. The two couples, who have been friends for over 25 years, plan to go south for a warm holiday together and think about what they will do with the windfall. | 5 | Nov. 18, 2000 | Beaumont IDA, Stetller, AB |
| A 79-year old lady discovered her million-dollar ticket just before it expired. She was checking her wallet for a postage stamp when she found the year-old ticket. | 1 | October 2000 (BC/49) |
BC |
| Mary Champaine bought 13 tickets - one for herself and every employee at the Starbucks coffee shop she runs. She fronted the money for several absent workers, but didn't hesitate to split the jackpot 13 ways. The 53-year old manager recounted how her husband died of cancer last year, how she lost her job when retailer Fedco went under last year and how her son, 24, was shot and killed several years ago. The other winners include Rick Camat, 28; Leah Coley, 30; Dina Escobar; Arely Gaytan, 27; Keith Matthews; Moisha Oliver; and Keana Essex, 16, whose winnings will go to her mother Kellye Richard. Each will get U$6.7 million before taxes, over 26 annual payments. Magic Johnson is an investor in their Mid-City Starbucks. | U$87 | Oct. 21, 2000 (Super Lotto Plus) |
L & E Liquor in Los Angeles will be awarded 0.5% of the jackpot, or U$435,000! |
| John & Gisele Rapley, a retired couple. | 10 | Oct. 13, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
Burlington, Ontario |
| John Rickert, Ken Auliffe, Dorothy Gibbons & 13 others of a 16-member group; 15 work at Shur-way Industries, a wooden pallet and container manufacturing business in Ayr, Ontario. They have been buying Lotto 6/49 tickets at the company for 17 years and the most they've ever won was $1,600. Company owner Monty Oakes, who missed out on the winning ticket, said he's happy for his employees but admitted being a little concerned with losing some of them. | 10 | Oct. 13, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
Pettigrews Garage in Plattsville, Ontario |
| Shirley Robinson, a widowed mother of four. Robinson,
her children, their spouses and her 10 grandchildren arrived at the lottery
corporation's headquarters in three rented limousines to pick up their
cheque. The family matriarch had purchased the ticket from a pool of money
to which her children and grandchildren regularly contributed. They haven't
determined how the prize will be divided. The faithful churchgoer doesn't believe her good fortune was purely a matter of chance. She reckons it had something to do with Percy, her husband of 57 years, who died in March. "I think it was divine intervention; I think he was with us," she said somberly. |
15 | Sept. 30, 2000 | Numbers picked at random by the store computer at a convenience store near her home in Aylmer, Ontario. |
| Serge Chouinard, a 41-year-old programming engineer at ElectroPac in Pointe-Claire. He is married and has a son. | 15 | Sept. 29, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
Dépanneur Sainte-Catherine, 247 Sainte-Catherine, Saint-Constant, Québec, which will be receiving a bonus cheque of $150,000, representing 1% of the jackpot. |
| Anthony Acosta, 20, goes to school part-time and was a loader for Frick Services. He will continue in his studies in communications and hopes to seek a career in broadcasting. | U$7.6 | Sept. 23, 2000 (Powerball) |
Quick pick ticket at Fast Max #142, 7902 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| Roberta Best, who turned 60 on September 19. Roberta, who cleans houses for a living, and her husband, Allan, are the parents of 5 grown children and 10 grandchildren. | U$7.6 | Sept. 23, 2000 (Powerball) |
Quick Pick at John's Apple Market in Raytown, Missouri. |
| 11 members of the Lessard family: Euclide Lessard, Pierre Lessard, Pierre Landry, Renaud Poulin, Réjean Poulin, Ghislain Lessard, Josée Lavallière, Laurent Lessard, Laurette Lessard, Claudette Lessard, Sylvie Roseberry. | 12.5 | Sept. 22, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
Essaim Pharmacy, 805 Smith Boulevard North, Robertsonville, Thetford Mines, Québec |
| Bill Edwards is a seasonal worker for Parks Canada. At least once a year, Bill Edwards drives from Jasper, Alberta to visit his 87-year-old aunt in BC. | 1 | Sept. 20, 2000 (BC/49) |
Port Coquitlam, BC |
| Eileen Shorter, owner of Driftwood Ranch, has two sons. | 2.5 | Aug. 30, 2000 | Smithers, BC |
| Danny & Donna Bernard have two daughters, Juliet and Madison. Danny operates an electrical and electronic repair service while Donna runs a hairstyling salon. In spite of their win, the Bernards plan to keep working. | 2.5 | Aug. 30, 2000 | Cornwall Save Easy in Cornwall, P.E.I. |
| Ken & Noreen Farough, parents of three. Ken works for a local electrical contracting business. | 1.1 | Aug. 23, 2000 | Ken bought a $1 Quick Pick on the night of the draw at Phil's Grocery, Neepawa, Manitoba, which has a population of 3,301. |
| 18 factory workers. The women who make blue jeans at a clothing factory each received $555,000. Diane Castonguay's husband was in the basement on the Internet when they found out. Guylaine Breton organized the lottery group about seven months ago. | 10 | Aug. 19, 2000 | Thetford Mines, Québec |
| Winnifred Kealey, her daughter Katherine and Joseph Chouinard, her son-in-law. 49-year old Katherine is a freelance publishing consultant | 7.5 | Aug. 18, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
Pharma Plus drugstore in Ottawa |
| James Lewis, who just turned 65. James and his wife Sharon have two adult children. The Delaware native is president of Lewis Consulting, a career-counseling firm he started in 1997. He said his family wants to help some charities and good causes that they have supported in the past. | Lewis has 60 days to decide whether to take a lump-sum payment of U$11.9 million (U$7.7 million after taxes, only 1/3 of the advertised U$22.9 million jackpot) or 25 annual payments of U$916,000 (U$593,100 after taxes). | Aug. 16, 2000 (Powerball) |
Kwik Way Foods in Richfield, Minnesota |
| Retiree Maurice Lagacé and his wife Pierrette. They plan to spoil their children and grandchildren, build the house of their dreams and buy a new car. | 10 | Aug. 9, 2000 | Shawinigan, Québec |
| Del Catherwood, 88-year old retired school principal. | 10 | July 28, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) | ON. Bought $2 Quick Pick, only played twice before! |
| Jeremy Bruyette, 23, and his mother Wendy Novitzke. "I had this really strong feeling that the day was right for me to buy a Powerball ticket, " Jeremy told reporters. "So I bought the ticket and went home. Later that night I was standing out on the back porch and I heard a voice say, 'You will win Powerball.' It kind of freaked me out at first, but it was so strong and was so real that by the time the drawing was held I was nervous because I was sure we were going to win." | U$5.2 | July 26, 2000 (Powerball) |
Quick Pick at the Speedway-SuperAmerica store in Germantown, Wisconsin. |
| Harold Larouche | 2 | July 26, 2000 | Dépanneur MV de Fatima, 2050 Marie-Victorin in Longueuil, Québec |
| Penny & Cyril White, who run a family business. They plan to invest their winnings for now, saying, "We don't plan to retire; we don't want this to change our lives." | 10 | July 22, 2000 | West End Market in Kentville, N.S. The retailer will receive a $100,000 seller's prize. |
| Mack Metcalf, 42, and his wife, Virginia Metcalf Merida, 46, will split their winnings 60/40. Both plan to immediately quit their jobs. Mack has been a forklift driver for Johnson Controls in Florence the last two-and-a-half years. Virginia has worked as a corrugator for Indy Homeycomb in Highland Heights for two years. Mack is moving to Australia and buying several houses, while Virginia still hasn't decided what to do with her portion. | U$34.1 | July 22, 2000 (Powerball) |
$3 quick pick ticket at the Pilot Travel Center in Walton, Kentucky. |
| Three days after New Jersey lottery officials said no
one had stepped forward to claim a year-old jackpot - the winning ticket
arrived in the mail. The letter,
sent to the lottery's Trenton headquarters, was postmarked on June 7 - two days
before the one-year deadline for claiming the prize.
"It wasn't even (sent via) certified or insured mail," a lottery
spokesperson said. "It's amazing." Melvin Milligan mailed in his winning ticket just before it expired. The laid-back 40-year old computer technician said he wasn't concerned that the Post Office would lose the ticket. Milligan, who lives in Passaic, said he bought the $5 ticket a year ago. When he got home, he put it in the junk drawer and forgot about it. Last week, he said, he was watching a TV news show with his wife, Kim, 34, and they heard an item about the about-to-expire lottery ticket and the store where it had been bought. Milligan said he remembered buying a ticket at the store for the same drawing. At 5 a.m. the next day, he said, he started looking. In 10 minutes, he found the ticket with the matching date. |
U$23.7 | June 9, 2000 (Big Game) |
A $10,000 bonus will go to the then-owner of Krauszer's convenience store in Montvale, US. |
| Bruce Fester, 42, of Omaha, Nebraska, said he gave his girlfriend, Kim Henderson of Omaha, some money to go to Worlds of Fun on June 3 and asked her not to buy him "a bunch of souvenirs". So instead, when she stopped in a store for a soda while waiting for the amusement park to open, she bought him a Powerball ticket. Fester, who owns a sprinkler company in Omaha, said he plans to keep working. | U$6 | June 3, 2000 (Powerball) |
King Super Store, 5002 N.E. Paravin Road, Kansas City, Missouri |
| James Christian, 32, or Burns, TN; Ronnie Mays, 38, of La Vergne; Andy Perry of Mt. Juliet; and Mike Alderdice, 48, of Lewisburg, TN, work together as wholesale parts salesmen at Beaman Automotive Group. | U$31 | May 27, 2000 (Powerball) |
Christian bought the group tickets at Lotto Land in Franklin, KY. |
| Joe and Sue Kainz, married 40 years, own the Wild Onion Brewing Co. in Lake Barrington. Joe, 64 years old, and Sue, 62, have three children: Michael, 34; Patrick, 29; and John, 26. | U$90 | May 9, 2000 (Big Game) |
Quick Pick sold at Sweeney's Citgo in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Lake Zurich, Illinois. John Sweeney, the store owner, receives approximately a $1.8 million bonus for selling the winning ticket. The Michigan store that sold the other winning ticket only got $2,000. |
| Larry Ross, 47, and his 46-year-old wife Nancy will be
celebrating their 27th wedding anniversary next month. The Rosses own and
operate Bush Pools, a pool installation and maintenance business that has
been in the family for 13 years. Their three children are: Ian, 21, Eric,
25, and Shannon, 12. He is accustomed to working 80 to 100 hours a week in the summer. "We haven't had a summer vacation in 13 years." He said the family plans to move from their four-bedroom ranch in Shelby Township to a more secure neighborhood somewhere in Michigan. |
U$90 million before taxes, NOT the U$181.5 million being reported by lottery officials and the media. After the lottery deducts 28% for federal taxes and 4.2% in state income taxes, the Rosses will get about $61 million, only 1/3 of the misleading advertised jackpot. | May 9, 2000 (Big Game) |
Larry bought a hot dog with a hundred dollar bill and took his change in 98 lottery tickets. The store was at Mr. K's Party Shoppe, 2238 Auburn Road, Shelby Township near Utica, about 20 miles north of Detroit, Michigan. Owner George Kassab and his four sons were so thrilled that they opened up at 6 a.m., three hours early. They were very disppointed to receive a flat fee seller's prize of only $2,000. |
| Harry Laporte, a janitor at St. Mary's Elementary School. | 10 | May 5, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
Saint Mary's, New Brunswick |
| A group of 10 formed 13 years ago, including the lottery store owner. Along with pampering her kids a bit, the owner has already made plans to sell her store and enjoy retirement. | 5 | Apr. 29, 2000 | Dépanneur de l'Église in Saint-Adelme, Québec. The store's owner, Mme Jocelyne Truchon, in addition to her share of the jackpot, also claimed a bonus cheque for $50,000. |
| Terrilynn Regnier, 32-year-old chef. | 5 | Apr. 29, 2000 | Save On Foods, 8124 - 112 Ave., Edmonton, Alberta |
| Darlene Sonnenberg, a 41-year-old St. James, Winnipeg resident, plans to continue working as a Registered Nurse at the Deer Lodge Centre for now. She waited seven days to claim the prize, first putting the ticket in a safety deposit box then talking to a lawyer. | 12 | Apr. 26, 2000 | She bought a $5 Quick Pick at the suggestion of her sister, Carolyn, who felt that each of them should have a ticket on the big draw. She purchase it at Kern Korner, a Co-Op gas bar in Stonewall, Manitoba near her parents' hobby farm. |
| Melvin, Mike and Verneda Fay Rhodes | U$42 | Apr. 19, 2000 (Powerball) |
Kentucky |
| Gunnar Nyborg, a retired longshoreman | 2 | Apr. 5, 2000 | He won with a 6/49 Combo 7 ticket. |
| Terry Degen, a lawyer | 2 | Apr. 5, 2000 | Bev's East West Variety in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
| Retired couple Corky and Pauline Ratushniak, married 45 years. Corky, a former 46-year CN Rail accounting employee, checked the couple's tickets on March 26, which just happened to be his 76th birthday! Pauline is 66 years old and a former MTS clerk for 18 years. | 1 | Mar. 25, 2000 Western 649 |
The winning ticket was a "2-2-2" quick pick - a $5 purchase that gives the player two selections on WESTERN 649, two selections on LOTTO 6/49, and two THE PLUS numbers. It was purchased at the Mac's Convenience Store, 1035 Autumnwood Drive in Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| Larry and Helen Tessier. The 50-year-old janitor at the Winnipeg Transit's Fort Rouge maintenance depot and his 46-year-old wife have three sons: Blair (22 years old), Clint (20), and Brent (14). The couple will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in October. Larry and his mother, who lives in a city nursing home, regularly played the lottery together. | 11.4 | Mar. 15, 2000 | Shell Select at 655 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg |
| 26 American Airlines employees from Tulsa, OK. Every month for the past 2 years, each of the 26 members for the third-shift contributed $10 apiece. One member of the group would then make the trip to Kansas to purchase Powerball tickets for their group. | U$25.9 | Mar. 4, 2000 (Powerball) |
The Gunny Sack at 606 N. McGee Street in Caney, Kansas |
| Keith and Carol Georgen. Keith is a 36-year old machinist. Carol is a 36-year-old computer programmer. The family has no plans to move from Elgin, a town of 750 people, or leave their work. | U$25.9 | Mar. 4, 2000 (Powerball) |
Greenway Co-op at 15-2nd Ave., N.E. in Elgin, Minn. |
| Gary and Bev Ruff. Gary is 51. Bev, 50, plans to quit her job as a sales and customer service representative for Anheuser-Busch. | U$25.9 | Mar. 4, 2000 (Powerball) |
Vickers, 10310 Page Blvd., Overland, MO. |
| William Peace, Jr. His 41st birthday is on this same week. He'll quit his $18,000 a year job as an aircraft mechanic at Algonquin Flight Centre. | 18.2 | Feb. 19, 2000 (Lotto Super 7) |
North Bay, Ontario |
| Chinese astrological charts predicted the year of the dragon would be a good financial one for Doug Russell. He works as a technical analyst for Intria-HP. The $5 scratch-and-win ticket was given to him as a birthday gift by childhood friend, Chris Karanicolas, at The Keg. After the birthday dinner, they went out to a bar where Russell unknowingly dropped the ticket which was in an envelope with a birthday card. Passersby walked over it a few times before - in keeping with Russell's lucky streak - someone picked it up and handed it back to him. | 1 | Feb. 5, 2000 (Ontario Instant Millions) |
Toronto |
| Peter Milkowski been playing the same 6/49 numbers for seven years. He repairs boats, and plans to buy a 40-foot motor-sailer. | 5 | Feb. 5, 2000 | Burnaby, BC |
| Steve Cooke & Cyndi Croll | 5 | Jan. 29, 2000 | Manitoba |
| Larry and Sarann Hasken of Sabula and their three children took a limousine ride to the Iowa Lottery to turn in the winning ticket. Larry, 59, who has worked for 30 years in Clinton, Iowa for Union Pacific Railroad, said his days on the job are over. Sarann is an employee at Products Unlimited CII. | U$16 | Jan. 8, 2000 (Powerball) |
Ackerman Grocery in Sabula, a town of about 700 along the Mississippi River |
| Antonios Kripotos, Chairman of a resource company specializing in gold mining, was at the racetrack betting a triactor. "I bet on three horses and got back over $4,000. I bet on another race and won over $1,800."
The thought occurred to him that he should try the 6/49. His third bet was a winner, too! A Combo 9 ticket had all six winning numbers: "I was excited, very happy but not crazy." It was his third time lucky on 6/49, too. Antonios previously won prizes of $13,000 and $12,000 each time playing Combo 9. A gold mining project was also a winner — a major discovery made in 1993! Maybe that saying should be changed for Antonios — good things come in sixes! |
2.5 | Jan. 8, 2000 | Vancouver, BC |
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