Woman wins $1M two weeks after winning $1,000 in same scratch-off lottery game

STRAFFORD, Mo., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A Missouri woman who won $1,000 from a lottery scratch-off game was back at lottery headquarters two weeks later to collect a $1 million prize.

Strafford resident Doris Danielson, a great-grandmother of five, told Missouri Lottery officials she was shopping with her daughter about two weeks after winning $1,000 on a $300,000,000 Golden Ticket Scratchers game when she decided to pick up another ticket for the same game at a Kum & Go store.

Danielson said she was still in the store's parking lot Sept. 3 when she discovered she had won the $1 million prize.

"Oh, it was so exciting! I about had a heart attack," Danielson said. "My daughter had to bring the ticket back into the store to make sure it wasn't a joke."

Danielson said she plans to share both the $1,000 and $1 million jackpots with her three children.

"I'm very fortunate, I'll tell you that much," Danielson said.