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Smyrna jackpot winner to buy wife new car from $332K prize
ATLANTA – A Smyrna man has piled on a plentiful prize from the Georgia Lottery. John Walker, 71, matched all five winning numbers from the Jan. 14 Fantasy 5 drawing, winning the $332,464 jackpot prize.
Walker selected the Quik Pik option and claimed his prize Thursday at Georgia Lottery headquarters in Atlanta.
CITGO Quick Food Mart, 540 Concord Road in Smyrna, sold the winning ticket.
Winning numbers from the Jan. 14 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 11-35-36-37-38.
“They were such weird numbers. That’s how I remembered them,” Walker recalled as he watched the televised drawing. “I knew immediately, but I wanted to be sure.”
Following a sleepless night mulling over his win, Walker now is enthused.
“I told my wife at 6 a.m., and she thought the prize was pretty good,” he said.
The lucky winner and his wife, Karen, have three adult children and one grandchild.
Married 34 years, Walker anticipates buying her a new car.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $15.7 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 1.7 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com and www.lotterybenefitsgeorgians.com
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