Lisa N. and Everett Quam of Auburn are the center of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, press conference at the Washington State Lottery headquarters in Olympia,Wash. after selecting the winner numbers in the $90 million Powerball jackpot over the weekend. Their winning ticket was purchased at Haggen Northwest Fresh store in Auburn, which also collects $50,000 for selling it to the Quams. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)
Lisa N. and Everett Quam of Auburn are the center of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, press conference at the Washington State Lottery headquarters in Olympia,Wash. after selecting the winner numbers in the $90 million Powerball jackpot over the weekend. Their winning ticket was purchased at Haggen Northwest Fresh store in Auburn, which also collects $50,000 for selling it to the Quams. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle couple who claimed a $90 million Powerball jackpot say they both will quit their jobs at Boeing and then travel, take care of their family and buy a new car.
Lisa N. and Everett Quam already have picked out the car — a Subaru Forester.
At a news conference Thursday, Lisa Quam said she took a break from cooking on Thanksgiving Day and ran to the grocery store with her husband to pick up a newspaper with the Black Friday ads, along with some pumpkin spice.
They bought two Powerball tickets while checking out.
"The cashier was really nice and asked if we wanted to purchase Powerball. I said, 'Sure!' I had never purchased a Powerball ticket before," she said.
Lisa Quam checked the numbers Sunday night.
"I yelled to my family, 'Get up here!' They all thought I was mad and angry about something. My daughter asked, 'Is this an emergency?' and I said, 'Yes!'"
Lisa Quam called herself a "special occasions" lottery player, KING reported (http://kng5.tv/1vS0FEu ).
"I am not a lucky person," she said. "My husband says it's just dumb luck."
She has worked as a sourcing specialist at Boeing, managing contracts, for 25 years. Her husband of 32 years has been a Boeing mechanic for 16 years.
The couple from suburban Auburn was still deciding whether to take the money in 30 annual payments or a lump sum of $56.8 million, Washington state lottery spokeswoman Jennifer Carroll said.
The ticket for Saturday's drawing was the first winning Powerball ticket sold in Washington since the game began there in 2010, Carroll
said. Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
