‘I almost deleted it;’ Boyle County couple wins $50,000 Powerball prize online

BOYLE COUNTY, Ky. – A Boyle County couple’s family vacation is one worth remembering after a $50,000 Powerball win.

According to lottery officials, the Powerball ticket was purchased online nearly six weeks before the couple returned home in Kentucky.

Steve Lynn and his family traveled to St. Augustine Beach, Florida, where they enjoyed the pool, beach and resting.

Lynn’s wife decided to catch up on some emails, officials say, when her husband was taking a nap.

“I had like 1,200 emails,” she joked. “He fell asleep, so I figured it was a good time to sit there and go through my emails because the kids were at the beach and the pool.”

While scrolling through her emails, officials say she spotted a Sept. 7 email from the Kentucky Lottery confirming they had won $50,000.

“And I almost deleted it. I thought it was a scam or something,” she said. “I immediately logged into my (Lottery) account and there it was. I had to look at it a couple of times. Then he woke up, and I told him.”

She had to remind her husband of their lottery play in September at a Ponderosa Speedway, an auto racing dirt track in Junction City.

“We were sitting around when the races were over playing Scratch-offs and online,” Lynn said. “She had bought some tickets online. We always buy our (draw) tickets online.”

His wife said they had some winnings left in their Kentucky Lottery online account and that she bought Powerball and Mega Millions tickets.

The couple’s win was part of the historic Sept. 6 $1.8 billion Powerball drawing when tickets sold in Missouri and Texas won the jackpot.

Currently, three Powerball tickets remain unclaimed from the $1.8 billion jackpot run. These include two $50,000 tickets sold in London and Lebanon and a $1 million ticket sold in Owensboro.

Lynn’s wife said she immediately sent messages about their win to their daughters.

“One of them asked if we could stay on vacation longer,” she laughed.

Lynn said their drive back to Kentucky was “a little bit easier. We had plenty of gas money.”

The couple came into the Kentucky Lottery recently – 40 days after purchasing the winning ticket online – to claim their prize: $36,000 after taxes.

They plan to pay off their truck and buy their grandchildren a new swing set.