Great Grandma "MIGHT" Fix Her Roof After Winning $5.6 Million

[matcom]

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A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother from Everett is thinking about fixing her leaky roof and maybe taking a cruise to someplace warm and sunny now that she's won $5.6 million in the state lottery, her great-granddaughter, Cynthia Smith, said yesterday.

Louise Outing, who has lived in the same house since she was a child and became the matriarch of a family that includes seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren, won the windfall after purchasing a Megabucks ticket at the nearby Fine Mart convenience store in Everett, Smith said.

The numbers were announced Sept. 4, and the odds were 1 in about 5.2 million, lottery officials said.

On Friday, Outing walked into state lottery offices in Braintree and claimed a check worth approximately $198,000 -- the first of 20 years' worth of payments, after taxes, she will collect. The staggeringly good fortune came her way after years of playing the lottery every day except Sunday, which she considers too holy for numbers games.

''It's really unbelievable right now -- it hasn't really sunk in that she actually won," said Smith, 34, who answered Outing's phone yesterday. Outing, she said, was on a shopping trip, not to buy diamonds or a new car, but to pick up groceries, as she does every Saturday.

[mrbassman03]

1. She's 94? And has 20 years of payments?

Wow, good luck for her kids I guess... not to be cynical or anything.

Ha Ha... Everett, I just read that again, what a poo town.

[amazona]

2. this woman must be senile

Let's see, she's 94, sooooo she opts for the 20 year annuity payment instead of the lump sum payment? Ho-kay, that makes a lot of sense.

Does anyone know if she dies, if her estate will get the annuity, or if the payments stop? I know in some annuities, when the holder dies, the payments stop, but I don't know how it works with this lottery.

It honestly sounds like she has not a clue of what has happened. No doubt some fast-thinking relative will get the money away from her if she's really this clueless. Sigh.