Age does not mean anything if we are talking about the chance to win a lottery. There are some records of the oldest lottery winners who luckily won the jackpot and live their life happily after that.
5 Oldest Lottery Winners
- Nguyen Van Het : A 97 years old Nguyen won £235,000 in 2010. Living in a poor life, his life got incredible changes. The story started when his relatives gave him money as a Chinese New Year Celebration, which then he used to buy a lottery ticket. Turns out the £2.50 brought him the best deal of his life. After his winning, he gave the large portion of the winning to charity and banked the amount left to himself.
- Omer Williamson: Omer won the lottery jackpot back in January 1992 in a total of $3.5 million. At that time he was 85 years old and granted as the oldest Missouri lottery millionaire. Recent news stated that Omer is now unfortunately deceased, and no further news about what happened to his remaining wealth.
- Gracie Vera Coulson: Gracie won an amount of £5,451,939 in 1999. She shared the amount with her 4 syndicate members. At the time of the winning, she was 87 years old. Currently, there is no recent news about her.
- Gloria MacKenzie: Gloria won the jackpot in her 85-year-old, she whopped $590 million on a Powerball jackpot. She actually won the 2nd largest jackpot of all time. A recent report says that she donated $2 million to school in Maine and also bought herself a home worth of $1.175 million.
- Dennis Banfield: The 87 years old Banfield won £18 million jackpot along with his wife, and soon then named as the oldest winners of the UK. The couple said they would first use the money to change their house for 57 years for a roomy bungalow.