Jackpot for Ocean County woman with big family
BEACHWOOD A woman in Ocean County plans on splitting a multimillion dollar lottery jackpot with her 16 brothers andpatagonia outlet reno store hours1 sisters, according to a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Lottery.
UPDATE: Ocean County family claims $20M lottery check
The winner of a $20.1 million New Jersey Lottery Pick 6 jackpot has been identifipatagonia outlet reno store hoursed only as a mother with a sprawling family in Ocean County. The family can t remain anonymous forever, however, so the state lottery announced that 30 members of the winning family would be made available at news conference this afternoon at the Beachwood Community Center.
The patriarch of the family emigratpatagonia better sweater zip uped from Norway in thpatagonia outlet reno store hours0e early 20th century. Later, he met the family s matriarch on the Jersey Shore, where they remained and set their roots in Ocean County. Through hard work and perseverance they raised a family and grew a successful business that is still in existence today, reapatagonia discount couponds a statement issued Tuesday describing the family.
Take our poll: If you won the lottery, would you share it with your family?
Judy Drucker, spokeswoman for the state lottery, said the winner was one of the 17 living children, ranging in ages from 53 patagonia guide rock pantsto 76, of the couple described in the statement. The winner has indicated a desire to split the prize 20 ways, one share though Drucker could not patagonia outlet store salt lake citysay if they would all be equal for each sibling, as well as the three children of a brother who died a few years ago, Drucker said.
The winner chose to take the lump sum rather than an annuity that pays out each year, making the jackpot $14 million. After taxes, the take home prize is about $10 million, Drucker said.
This is the second major lottery prize for Ocean County in the last 12 months. A group of co workers at the Ocean County Vehicle Maintenance Garage in Toms River, dubbed Ocean s 16, split $86 million from a Powerball jackpot last August.
According to the state lottery s website, the only Pick 6 $20 million patagonia outlet reno store hours3winner in the past year was from the June 16 drawing. The lucky numbers: 3, 12, 18, 34, 35, 42.
Drucker said the winning ticket was a single wager, a $1 Quick Pick, meaning the playpatagonia better sweater icelandic hoodie reviewser had just one set of randomly generated numbers. The odds of matching all six numbers are 1 in 13,983,816, according to the lottery.
The family wanted to keep their identities a secret and take a one and done approach to what they believed would be a media swarm in reaction to the news. The law requires the names of lottery winners to be divulged.
They wanted to not be inundated with the media on their doorsteps. . Tomorrow evepatagonia discount code 52rybody will know their names, Drucker said Wednesday.
At the sitpatagonia everlong review antiviruse of the fateful sale, a Lacey Township 7 Eleven, store owner Manny Chpatagonia everlong review hondaaudhari said he had never met the woman who purchased the winning ticket.
We knew right away that we had a winner. We heard a couple of days ago. But we never heard from the winner, Chaudhari said.
The woman was not a regular customer, said Chaudhari, who also owns 7 Eleven stores in Toms River, Tuckerton and Little Egg Harbor.
Chaudhari has had other winners at his stores in the last two years, but most of the winners ranged only from $100,000 to $1.5 million.
They say this is a lucky store. Sales already went up 20 percent, he said.
People who buy tickets at Chaudhari s 7 Eleven said they were excited for the winner.
It makes me wonder why I wasn t here sooner, said Dina Pasquin of Lacey, who is a frequent lottery ticket purchaser. I haven t hit anything big yet. I play mostly scpatagonia outlet reno store hours2ratch offs and I won $10 today.
Ken Doyle of Forked River was purchasing lottery tickets on Tuesday and said he heard the heard the news of the win earlier in the day.
People kept asking me if I was the one who won because I play so often, Doyle joked. But it waspatagonia messenger bag tutorialsn t.
