Lottery winner wanted to spoil his mom. Then she won her own North Carolina jackpot
A lottery winner wanted to spoil his mom — and then she scored her own jackpot prize in North Carolina.
Peggy Williams said she was in disbelief when she realized she won big less than a month after her son took home a different six-figure prize.
“I feel like we are blessed,” her son, Randy Williams, told the N.C. Education Lottery in a July 12 news release.
The Greenville family’s luck started after Randy Williams had a “gut feeling” that he would score a lottery prize. One night, he discovered he won $518,774 and told his mom all about it, McClatchy News reported in June.
“I just ran through the house hollering,” he said in a news release.
Then, weeks after the son’s win left his mother “jumping up and down,” she celebrated a lucky moment of her own. Officials said Peggy Williams was at a Food Lion grocery store in Greenville when she spent $10 to play the Double Diamond Cashword game.
“I love to play the crosswords,” she said. “Those are my favorite ones.”
When she checked her scratch-off ticket, the $500,000 prize left her in shock.
“This is hard to believe,” Peggy Williams told lottery officials. “I went over it about 10 times to make sure I had it correct.”
This time around, officials said the woman’s son came with her to claim her prize, which totaled $356,253 after taxes.
“Her son initially planned to buy her a new house with his winnings, but Williams said they decided to use his win to fix up her current home,” the N.C. Education Lottery wrote. “But after her most recent win, she said they might finally buy a new house after all.”
Greenville is roughly 85 miles east of Raleigh.
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