A western Iowa man didn't realize he won a million-dollar Powerball prize until he went to the store to purchase more lottery tickets.
Ron Rothe, 73, of Denison, purchased the winning ticket for the Sept. 13 drawing. Despite hearing that someone in the area won the $1 million, he left the ticket in the glove compartment of his truck for a week.
He didn't know it matched all five white balls — missing the Powerball — until he asked a clerk at Kimmes Denison Country Store to check the old ones while he was buying more.
“She comes back with the manager, a big smile on her face, sticks her hand out and goes, 'Congratulations!'” he told lottery officials when he and his wife of 53 years, Pat, claimed the prize. “I said, 'For what?' She goes, 'You won a million dollars!' It's like, 'OK?!'”
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