A 76-year-old woman from Pennsylvania is heartbroken after realizing she left her winning lottery ticket in a jacket she donated.
This ticket was worth an astonishing $2.5 million, and her good deed may have cost her a life-changing sum of money.
The generous donation to charity
Mildred Simoneriluto wanted to help others, so she donated several clothing items to the Vietnam Veterans of America. This charity supports veterans and helps them with various services.
Mildred thought she was doing something nice, but she had no idea that her jacket contained a winning lottery ticket.
Just two weeks before her donation, Mildred bought a lottery ticket from a grocery store in Murrysville.
She had tucked the ticket into the pocket of her jacket for safekeeping. However, after donating the jacket, she forgot all about the ticket.
76-year-old woman devastated after mistakenly donating jacket containing her winning $2.5M lottery ticket
Last year, Mildred remembered that she had purchased a lottery ticket. She was excited to check the numbers, only to realize she could not find it.
