Hephzibah electrician wired over $500,000 lottery win

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

ATLANTA – A Hephzibah electrician has opened a fuse box full of funds. Berry Thomas, 59, won a $500,000 Georgia Lottery top prize playing the instant game Jumbo Jumbo Bucks.

Need More Kuntry Store, 4212 Windsor Spring Road in Hephzibah, sold the winning ticket, and Thomas scratched it in the store.

“I was pretty calm,” he said. “I’m happy.”

Thomas and his wife, Brenda, have three adult children and two grandchildren.

The lucky lottery winner said he plans to invest his winnings.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $11.7 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 1 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

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