We don’t ever have luck like that.”īalmer said that she and Ellis were so keyed up, they only got a few hours of sleep Monday night, so they decided to claim the prize on Tuesday while her parents helped her sons get their entries to the Tama County Fair.īalmer’s ticket matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball to initially win a $1 million prize in the game’s Monday drawing. It’s not something that happens - ever - to us. We couldn’t believe that something like that would happen to us. “You were in tears, my stepmom was hugging you, I’m tearing up, I don’t even know if I was really listening to what the clerk was saying!” she recalled on Tuesday with Ellis. “I was just super excited.”īalmer said they were shaken up, in a good way. “I was jumping up and down, teary-eyed,” he said. “Because I knew I wouldn’t sleep if I couldn’t know, not that I slept much anyway.”Įllis said they all went inside and it was quite a scene once they realized the good news. “We were hurrying to get there and wanted to check it,” she said. Then we called my stepmom and we went and checked it at another Casey’s gas station and verified that it was a winner.”īalmer said it was a race against the clock because they knew the Casey’s store in the nearby community of Toledo would close soon. “And then I checked on the app and didn’t quite believe what I was seeing. “I had a ticket with multiple plays on it and I saw the numbers, and I double-checked on the website a couple times,” she said. About an hour later, they were at home and she decided to check the results of the easy-pick ticket.
It’s his first year at it.”īalmer, 36, a nurse who works for a home healthcare company, said that she and her boyfriend, Mike Ellis, bought the $2 million-winning ticket Monday night, just before the sales cut-off time for that night’s Powerball drawing. “They’re taking his heifer, my oldest has a heifer, and my youngest is showing a chicken. “They’re taking the livestock to the county fair,” Megan Balmer of Garwin said as she claimed her prize Tuesday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.
But first, she hopes her sons will be winners with their entries at the local fair.
CLIVE, Iowa - Iowa’s newest $2 million Powerball® winner says she’s looking forward to paying off her house and student loans and planning for retirement.
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