A
retired school counselor from
Albany is celebrating a Georgia Lottery win.
Harry Johnson matched all five winning numbers in the
Sept. 2 Fantasy 5 drawing and won $195,526.
Harry Johnson with his $195,000 lottery
check
Winning
numbers for the Sept. 2 Fantasy 5 drawing were:
21-26-33-37-38. Johnson, who randomly selected the
combination, purchased his top prize ticket at
Kwickie/Flash #0205, 300 E. Oakridge Drive,
Albany
.
The
79-year-old discovered that he won when his daughter
checked the draw results on the Georgia Lottery
Corporation’s Web site.
Johnson
is retired from the Dougherty County School System. He
has two children, three grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
“I’m
going to do some remodeling on the house,” Johnson said
of his winnings. “And I guess I’ll put some up for my
grandchildren.”
Georgia
Lottery retailers selling winning Fantasy 5 top prize
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 top prize
ticket is sold, the retailers selling the top prize
winning tickets will share the bonus. Kwickie/Flash will
receive a retailer incentive bonus of $6,000.
Since
its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has
returned over $9.3 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 million students
have received HOPE, and more than 790,000 4-year-olds
have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten
program.