A 76-year-old cancer survivor won $5 million on a ticket she bought for her birthday.
Donna Osborne from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was due to take a flight to visit family in Florida. It was delayed so many times, she decided to cancel her trip and went home instead – while her daughter took the trip.
After leaving the airport Osborne, who had just finished radiation treatment for breast cancer, purchased the Monopoly Own It All ticket scratch card at the Speedway gas station on Oregon Pike in Leola.
The decision to not take the flight meant the great-grandmother discovered become a millionaire – the ticket landed the $5million top prize.
Osborne scratched the $50 in the car park before rushing back into the store after seeing how much she has won.
Donna Osborne won millions on her 76th birthday
Osborne won $5 million on the Monopoly Own It All scratch card
‘I could not believe my eyes,’ she explained.
‘I went back into the store and said, ‘Can you please check this? Is it right or wrong?’
‘Well, the clerk said, ‘It’s right!’.’
Osborne told Fox29 that the first thing she plans to do with the money is take a trip of a lifetime to Alaska.
However, she has no plans to retire from her job providing transportation to the Amish community.
‘I don’t know what I’d do with myself, I have to keep moving,’ she said.
‘I think I’ll invest some of the prize, sure, but then go to Alaska!’
But she very nearly missed out.
‘I was at the airport with my daughter. We were on our way to see family in Florida when the flight got delayed,’ Osborne told Fox29.
‘It was delayed so many times, I decided to go home. My daughter stayed and flew to Florida.
‘If I didn’t leave the airport, I would have never bought that ticket,’ she added.
The great-grandmother bought the scratch card at the Speedway on Oregon Pike in Leola
The Monopoly Own It All scratch cards is a $50 game that offers 5 top prizes of $5 million.
Other prizes are available ranging from $75 to the second-largest prize of $500,000.
The chance of winning the top prize is 1 in 1,680,000 according to Pennsylvania Lottery.
