ATLANTA – An Ellabell school cafeteria worker is marinating in excitement. Rhonda Myers, 52, won a $50,000 top prize playing Jumbo Bucks Classic.
She purchased her ticket at Zip N Foods #0003, 3279 Highway 204 in Ellabell.
"I was thinking that maybe I'd get lucky," she recalled. "I was sitting down when I scratched it, and I almost fell on the floor when I saw that I'd won."
Myers has three adult children with her husband, Bobby, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She hopes to pay off all of her bills with the prize.
"I thought it was a dream," she shared. "I'm still dazed about it."
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11 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 1.1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 940,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.
For more information, please visit the Media Center on the Georgia Lottery Web site at: www.galottery.com
