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COOKIE STOP YIELDS $200,000-WINNING TICKET
June 2, 2008
DES MOINES, Iowa - An Illinois woman who works in Iowa recently stopped to buy some cookies - and found out the Powerball® ticket she was holding was a $200,000 winner!
Reo Ogleton of Rock Island, Ill., won $200,000 in the May 28 Powerball drawing. She purchased the winning ticket at Kwik Shop, 303 W. Locust St. in Davenport and claimed her prize at the Iowa Lottery's regional office in Cedar Rapids.
Ogleton, who turns 60 on June 5, stopped at the Kwik Shop the day after the drawing to pick up some cookies and found out she was a big winner!
“I went in to buy a pack of cookies, like I always do on Thursday,” she said. “I said, ‘Can you redeem my ticket?’ …When she ran [the ticket] through the machine, she said, ‘Oh my goodness. You're going to have to go to the office.’ And I was like, ‘For what - to get some cookies?’”
It turned out Ogleton was holding a $200,000-winning ticket from the previous night's drawing!
“I was getting ready to say, ‘You can have these cookies back, [because I'm not] going that far.’ And she said, ‘No, you won $200,000!’ And I was like, ‘Okay, don't lie to me.’”
Once she realized she had actually won, Ogleton couldn't contain her excitement!
“She gave me the ticket and I just started screaming,” she said. “I was like, ‘What? Yay! Thank [goodness], I can play all my bills off!’”
She said she wasn't sure how she would spend the rest of her prize money once she paid her bills.
The winning Powerball numbers for the May 28 drawing were: 10-18-22-37-45. The Powerball was 9. The Power Play® multiplier was 2.
If Ogleton had played the Power Play option, she would have won $400,000!
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