75-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor Wins $5 Million Lottery

A Pennsylvania woman, who recently finished her breast cancer treatment, was astonished to discover she had won $5 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket, as reported by lottery officials.

Donna Osborne, 75, shared with Pennsylvania Lottery officials that she and her daughter were at an airport preparing to visit family in Florida when their flight was repeatedly delayed, according to a Pennsylvania Lottery news release.

“The delays were so numerous, I decided to go back home,” Osborne recounted in the release. Her daughter continued with the trip and flew to Florida alone.

“If I hadn’t left the airport, I would have never bought that ticket,” Osborne remarked. She purchased the winning ticket, part of a Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off game called MONOPOLY Own It All, at a Speedway gas station in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Osborne, a great-grandmother, scratched off the ticket in the gas station’s parking lot and was stunned by the result, the release noted.

“I went back into the store and asked, ‘Can you please check this? Is it correct?’” Osborne said. “The clerk confirmed, ‘It’s right!’”

She immediately called her daughter in Florida to share the incredible news, according to the release.

“My daughter didn’t believe me,” Osborne said.

Osborne described the win as bittersweet, especially since she had just completed radiation treatment for breast cancer, as mentioned by the Pennsylvania Lottery.

She mentioned to lottery officials that she had been playing the lottery for years and that the prize arrived just in time for her birthday.

For the past decade, Osborne has been providing transportation services for the Amish and has no intention of retiring despite her substantial win, the release stated.

“I don’t know what I’d do with myself if I retired; I need to stay active,” Osborne said, according to the release. “I think I’ll invest some of the prize, definitely, but then I plan to visit Alaska!”