LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Boyle County couple is $50,000 richer — despite almost deleting an email from the Kentucky Lottery confirming their Powerball win.
According to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery, Steve Lynn’s wife was scrolling through her email while the couple was on a family trip to St. Augustine Beach, Florida, when she came across a Sept. 7 email from the Lottery confirming the win.
“And I almost deleted it. I thought it was a scam or something,” she said. “I immediately logged into my Lottery account and there it was. I had to look at it a couple of times. Then he woke up, and I told him.”
She then remembered they played the lottery on Sept. 6 at Ponderosa Speedway in Junction City, Kentucky.
“We were sitting around when the races were over playing scratch-offs and online,” Lynn said. “She had bought some tickets online. We always buy our draw tickets online.”
Their win was part of the historic Sept. 6 drawing for the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot. There are still unclaimed tickets from that lottery in Kentucky, including two $50,000 tickets sold in London and Lebanon, and a $1 million ticket sold in Owensboro.
The couple plans to use their $36,000 winnings, after taxes, to pay off their truck and buy their grandchildren a new swing set.
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