Great-grandmother who finished cancer treatment wins $5 million in lottery

A Pennsylvania great-grandmother who recently completed radiation treatments for breast cancer won $5 million on a scratch-off state lottery ticket she only bought because a scheduled family trip didn’t go as planned.

Donna Osborne, 75, won the grand prize last month when she bought a $50 “Monopoly Own It All” ticket while buying gas at a convenience store in Lancaster County, where she lives. Osborne said she had already purchased a $5 lottery ticket, which brought in $50, so she used that money to buy another ticket.

“I was at the airport with my daughter. We were going to see family in Florida when the flight was delayed. Well, it was late so many times that I decided to go home. My daughter stayed and flew to Florida,” Osborne said. “If I hadn’t left the airport, I would never have bought that ticket!”

Osborne said she scratched the ticket while in the store’s parking lot and was surprised to realize she had won the game’s top prize.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes!” Osborne said. “I went back to the store and said, ‘Can you check this? Is this right or wrong?’ Well, the clerk said, ‘That’s right!’”

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Osborne, who said she has been playing the lottery “since it started” about 50 years ago, called her daughter with the good news, but “she didn’t believe me.”

Osborne, who has worked for decades providing transportation for the Amish people, said he doesn’t plan to retire anytime soon. But she has another trip in mind.

“I don’t know what I would do with myself, I have to keep moving,” she said. “I think I’ll invest some of the winnings, of course, but then I’ll go to Alaska,” she said.