Donald Lawson Lapeer Michigan

Donald Lawson Lapeer Michigan, Donald Lawson is from Lapeer, Michigan and he's the lucky winner of the $337 million Powerball jackpot. The 44-year-old is a railroad worker and said he could barely breathe when his lottery ticket matched the winning numbers.

"I fell backwards and I kind of lost my breath," he said. But he said the money will not change him. "I'm a millionaire now but I'll still eat McDonald's. I don’t like filet Mignon." The winning ticket was sold at the Odish Family Market and Sunoco gas station on the northside of town.

A photo of the ticket accompanied the large check as the winner was announced.

Lawson said he kept moving the ticket around the house for safekeeping before taking it to the bank.

"Everybody just started coming to the house. (I put the ticket) on my Bible. I put under my couch. It was on top of my refrigerator," he said.

He has two children and has lived in Lapeer for 10 years, and is a Arkansas native. He worked the late shift at at a railroad company, he said. He said he quit his job the day he found out he won.

The winning ticket had all the numbers correct -- the only ticket in the nation to do so -- in the Aug. 15 drawing. It is the largest prize ever given out in the Michigan Lottery's history. The winning numbers were 06-27-46-51-56 with a Powerball of 21.

It is the third largest in Powerball history and seventh largest in U.S. history.

The winner has the option of taking a lump sum payment of $241 million or taking yearly payments. Taxes will take a big chunk out of that.