Two Queens families have come into some money this month, according to Bayside Patch, Russell and Lori Irushalmi won a cool mil. playing Powerball on April 7, while the NY Post reports a Jackson Heights pre-school teacher found her almost one-year-old winning ticket in her purse while spring cleaning.

Yes, Lolymary Questel, 35, had a winning ticket in her purse for nearly one year. She dug up the crumpled ticket in mid-April and saw that she had purchased it on May 19, 2011. If she had waited just a few more weeks, she would have missed out on claiming the prize entirely, as there is a one year deadline.

The moral of her story is, don’t throw away old tickets without checking them first!” said lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman.

All winners plan on using the money to pay for their children’s college education. The question is, how many kids do they have? Each family collected $623,000 in lump sum.


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