A jewelry store employee had a gem of a
week after two Georgia
Lottery wins. Theonita Shropshire won $500 in
last Monday’s Cash 3 Midday drawing and topped off her
week with a $50,000 win playing Jumbo Bucks
Classic.
Theonita Shropshire won the lottery twice
in one week
“I’m pretty
lucky,” said Shropshire ,
48.
Mega Star
Food Mart #0003, located at
1842 Mack
Smith Road in
Rossville, sold the lucky top prize tickets. When
Shropshire scratched
her Jumbo Bucks Classic instant game ticket in the
store, she began yelling.
“I just screamed, ‘Oh my goodness! Oh my
goodness!’ ” she said.
Shropshire , who works
as a buyer, is married with an adult son and two
granddaughters. She said her two lottery wins come at a
great time.
“I’m going
to buy some new garage doors and put the rest in
savings,” said Shropshire, a resident
of Chattanooga ,
Tenn.
Since its
first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned
over $10.3 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 Prekindergarten 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.