Iron City man has 'Jingle' bell ball with $750,000 prize

Monday, November 16, 2009

ATLANTA – An Iron City man can ring in the holiday season with a hefty prize from the Georgia Lottery. Larry Hill, 61, won a $750,000 top prize playing the instant game Jingle Jumbo Bucks.

The grandfather of 12 discovered that he had won the lottery prize while eating dinner at Bainbridge Truck Stop, 2331 Dothan Road in Bainbridge.

"We were getting ready to leave," he said. "I showed my wife, and she went nuts."

Hill, who also won $100 from the same game, showed the prizes to the store manager and the clerk who sold the ticket.

"They were more excited than I was," he said. "I'm still waiting for it to catch up to me."

Hill and his wife, Robbie, have three adult children and are expecting another grandchild.

"We may do something around the house," he shared. "We'll have to wait and see what happens."

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11.2 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia's Pre-K Program. More than 1.2 million students have received HOPE, and more than 940,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

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