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First-time lottery player wins $311K
ATLANTA – The first time was the charm for a lucky Macon woman. Billie Crawley, 45, played the lottery for the first time and won $311,556.
“I am so happy,” she exclaimed.
Crawley won the prize as one of two players who matched all five winning numbers in the March 17 Fantasy 5 drawing.
“I don’t even play,” said Crawley. “I was in Warner Robins visiting my son, and my son’s father convinced me to play.”
Crawley randomly selected the winning combination: 6-17-18-23-24.
“It’s just unreal,” she said. “I keep thinking I’m going to wake up. I don’t know what to do with myself.”
A bartender at a Macon restaurant, Crawley plans to save, help her family, and take a trip to Savannah.
Crawley purchased her top prize ticket at Fastop, 750 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins.
The second top prize for the March 17 drawing was won by Sylvia Walker of Enigma, who works at a Walmart in Douglas. Walker bought her ticket in Tifton.
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.
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