Dennis Klaus & Maryann Diano are taking their Cash 5 Lotto winnings and buying a home.
NEW MILFORD — When Maryann Diano checked her Cash 5 Lotto ticket at the Big Y Supermarket, she was startled to see “Congratualtions!” on the screen.
“I was shaking,” Diano said, “and asked the gal behind the counter to check the ticket scan. Sure enough, I’d won $255,555.”
Diano and her life-partner Dennis Klaus had lost everything in Hurricane Sandy and been among the families that moved to the village at Faith Church in December 2012.
The couple met at the village and now live in a trailer in the Gaylordsville section of New Milford. They will use their winnings to put a down payment on a home of their own, Diano said.
The couple put a bid in on a house Monday. Klaus said this is “the start of a new book on our lives.”