MOUNT PLEASANT — A 74-year-old man from Isabella County is $500,000 richer after playing the Michigan Lottery’s Detroit Lions instant game.
The man bought the ticket at GCK Oil Inc., in Blanchard.
“I went to the store to buy a Powerball ticket, and my wife told me to get a few Detroit Lions tickets while I was there,” said the player. “I scratched the tickets the next morning and when I saw the $500,000 prize, I said to my wife, ‘Looks like we’re going to Lansing!’
“When I told her how much we’d won, she thought she was going to pass out! We were both dumbfounded. The shock hasn’t worn off yet, so we still can’t think straight, but what we do know is that this prize is going to be life-changing for us.”
The man plans to donate some of his winnings while setting the rest aside for his grandkids and savings account.
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