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Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :

Retired cleaner claims $294M jackpot

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOWELL, Mass. -- A housecleaning retiree no longer has to mop her own floors or dust her own furniture.

By winning a $294-million Mega Millions jackpot, Geraldine Williams can hire all the personal housekeepers she likes.

Williams, 68, a former college custodian who now cleans private homes, won the second-largest single-ticket jackpot in North America, the Sun of Lowell reported today. She was to receive a ceremonial cheque Friday.

"She was a wonderful person," Mary Recko, a former co-worker at UMass-Lowell, told The Associated Press. "Everybody liked her. All of us here are so happy that it was her who won."

Friends and family described Williams as a down-to-earth woman who fully intended to keep an appointment to clean a client's home until she was told she had to meet with financial advisers.

She has three children and eight grandchildren.

The $294 million is the highest prize in the multistate Mega Millions game. The winning ticket, sold at a Lowell wine store, will pay $11 million a year for 26 years before taxes or a lump sum of $168 million before taxes.

Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :

I bet she now has more friends than she thought she had. [Smile]

Posted by The Janitor (Member # 2035) on :

This news makes all custodial engineers very happy.

Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :

quote:
Originally posted by JohnS:
The winning ticket, sold at a Lowell wine store....

Wellthereyago...coulda been me!! [Roll Eyes]

Posted by BrostalSS (Member # 1830) on :

spend it....well some of it.

Posted by Mike2001SS (Member # 2088) on :

I could retire about 9 months early

Posted by 1997Z4CSS (Member # 2155) on :

I'll buy 2 Dick Harrel cars! [Cool]

Posted by vyto2 (Member # 2265) on :

Why is it always someone old wins it? [Mad]

She'll die before she can spend it all. Give it to me! I'll spend it... [Wink]

That's it, next time I buy a lotto ticket I'm wearing a grey wig! [Razz]

[ 10. July 2004, 09:37 AM: Message edited by: vyto2 ]

Posted by csmith4153 (Member # 2087) on :

quote:
Originally posted by 1997Z4CSS:
I'll buy 2 Dick Harrel cars!

Why only 2, get them all!

Posted by 1997Z4CSS (Member # 2155) on :

quote:
Originally posted by csmith4153:

quote:
Originally posted by 1997Z4CSS:
I'll buy 2 Dick Harrel cars!
Why only 2, get them all!

there are only 2 left [Frown]

I would drive one and store the other [Big Grin]

Or I could buy them all set fire to every one of them but 1 [Eek!]

. Then the one would be priceless! [Razz]

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