ATLANTA – A grandmother of four won a Georgia Lottery prize and celebrated her birthday in the same week. Marion Shewmake, who celebrated her 62nd birthday last Sunday, is one of two players to each win a $152,989 jackpot prize from matching all five winning numbers from the March 8 Fantasy 5 drawing.
Winning numbers from the drawing were: 9-10-17-28-38.
Shewmake visited The Oglethorpe Lounge with her husband, Kenneth, where she purchased her Quik Pik ticket. The second winning jackpot ticket was purchased in Woodstock.
“We went to the computer and got the numbers,” Shewmake said. “I feel wonderful.”
In addition to her four grandchildren, Shewmake has two adult children. She plans to retire this month after working 24 years at a local bank.
“I have no plans at the present,” she said. “I’m sure I’ll spend some of it.”
The Oglethorpe Lounge is located at 825 W. Oglethorpe Blvd., Albany.
Georgia Lottery retailers selling winning Fantasy 5 jackpot tickets receive a retailer incentive bonus of $2,000. The retailer incentive bonus increases by $2,000 each time Fantasy 5 rolls. If more than one winning jackpot ticket is sold, the retailers selling the winning jackpot tickets will share the bonus. The Oglethorpe Lounge will receive a $4,000 retailer incentive bonus.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $12.3 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 1.3 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.1 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com
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