ATLANTA — A spur-of-the-moment decision turned out to be a million-dollar win for a Newnan mother of three. Sheila Davis, 53, played the instant game $1,000,000 Gold Rush and won a $1 million top prize.
Davis and her husband, Johnnie, were on their way home when the couple stopped at CBS Convenience Store, 550 Smokey Road in Newnan, and Davis purchased a ticket.
“When my husband saw it, he started shaking,” she said. “I started crying. We’re all very excited.”
“We’ll do something we’ve never done,” Davis exclaimed.
The lucky winner, who works for Habitat for Humanity, anticipates taking care of her family.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $14.8 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 Pre-K Program. More than 1.6 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.