A Cobb County couple plan to get married and buy a house with their $250,000 winnings in a Georgia lottery game.
Darrell Garner and his fiancee Candace each had a Jeep Outdoor Adventure ticket in hand when Garner scratched the winner.
“We both started crying,” said Garner, a supervisor for a transportation company. “All we could think about was our family.”
The couple has three children ages 10, 12, and 13.
Garner bought the $5 winning ticket at Publix Super Market at 2900 Delk Road in Marietta.
One lucky college graduate is also making room for his $250,000 win.
Joseph Crandall, a recent graduate of Georgia State University, won a $250,000 top prize playing Jeep Outdoor Adventure.
Crandall, of Roswell, received the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship while enrolled at the university.
Crandall, 23, bought his lucky $5 ticket at Sydney Food Mart, 639 Morosgo Drive N.W. in Atlanta.
“I saw the jeep ticket and thought maybe I’d win a truck,” he said. “I scratched it at home, saw the dollar sign and the prize and said, ‘This can’t be real.’ ”
He plans to buy a car then save the rest.
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