Iowa Man Wins $1,000 a Day For Life from the Iowa Lottery
The top prize in the Iowa Lottery game 'Lucky for Life' is $1,000 a day for the rest of your life! Start playing while you're young! A lucky Iowa man is going to experience what the kind of payday will feel like after becoming the first person to win the game's top prize!
We Are Iowa reports that 64-year-old Shelby Willis of Des Moines won the multi-state game after buying his winning ticket at the Quick Trip on Grand Avenue in Des Moines. The gas station also gets a bonus for selling the winning ticket...$5,000. In a press release from the Iowa Lottery, Willis stated "This is going to change things for myself, my children, and my grandchildren, so I've got to do this right."
Although the top prize is listed as $1,000 a day for life, We Are Iowa reports that Willis has decided to take a one lump sum of $5.75 million. He said that was the best decision for the stage of life that he was in. The other thing Willis immediately did after cashing in his winning ticket? Retire from his job at a security business he had been running for years.
We Are Iowa reports that Willis already has an appointment with a financial planner and is following advice from his family to be careful with his winnings. As for where he kept the winning ticket safe until it could be confirmed? We Are Iowa reports that Willis stashed it inside of his mother's Bible for safekeeping.
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