While Parks waited to cash in at a lottery claims center in Greensboro, his daughter treated him to a $20 Carolina Keno ...

“She bought the ticket for me for my birthday,” Dennis Parks told the North Carolina Education Lottery in an April 2 news release. “It was my 81st birthday.” Parks, a military ...

That ticket turned into a $100,000 jackpot for Dennis Parks on his 81st birthday. "It was just my day, I guess," he laughed. Parks, a military veteran from Carthage, matched all 10 numbers on the ...

An 81-year-old veteran won a $100,000 lottery prize on his birthday. Simone Jasper [email protected] A daughter gave her dad a lottery ticket as a gift — and it was a big winner.