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Onawa man happy with smaller prize after just missing Powerball jackpot

January 15, 2016 By Matt Kelley

Bryon Stewart

Bryon Stewart

The biggest prize won in Iowa from the drawing for the world’s largest ever lottery jackpot was claimed Thursday.

Twenty-three-year-old Bryon Stewart of Onawa purchased a Powerball ticket that matched the first five numbers in Wednesday’s drawing, but missed the Powerball, for a $2 million prize.

Stewart drove to Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive with his girlfriend, Taylor Kuhlman.  “You just never expect it, ya know, from a small town…just a normal couple. You don’t think something like this could happen, then it does. It’s nice,” Stewart said.

Stewart, who works as a security officer at the WinnaVegas Casino & Resort in Onawa, says he and Taylor were in his car Wednesday night when they looked up the Powerball numbers and realized he had won a big prize.

 “We screamed, jumped, got out of the car, ran around and hugged,” Stewart said. “This was about 11:30 at night, so we probably woke up a few people, but we were just so happy.”

Stewart purchased three tickets for the drawing. Three tickets purchased in California, Florida, and Tennessee matched all six numbers drawn for a share of the $1.6 billion jackpot.

Stewart said he’s happy with the $1.4 million he’ll collect, after taxes. “I just want to pay some loans off and maybe, down the road, look for another house,” Stewart said. “The biggest thing is, I want the money to last as long as we can. I’m only 23, $2 million is a lot of money, but it’s not going to get me ‘til I’m 80. I want to make it last.”

Stewart said he will continue to work, and Kuhlman said she will as well. This marks the second time this week that a young person in western Iowa has claimed a big Powerball prize.

On Monday, 23-year-old Joel Dominguez of Sioux City claimed a $1 million Powerball prize he won in Saturday’s drawing.

 

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