ATLANTA — A winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold in West Point. West Point Shell, located at 1860 Ga. Highway 18, sold a Powerball Quik Pik ticket matching the first five winning numbers from the April 29 drawing.
Winners from a lottery pool, consisting of 11 people, each claimed their portion of the $1 million prize Monday at the Georgia Lottery District Office in Columbus.
The winners are Montgomery, Ala., residents Warren Johnston, Rosemary Brown, James Gholston, Yvonne McClure, Cynthia Lewis, Raquel Baker, Shellie Bryant, Shannakay Owens, Cynthia Ferguson, Lynetta Holly; and Hope Hull, Ala., resident Treston Thomas.
Winning numbers from the April 29 Powerball drawing were: 1-26-34-38-51 and the Powerball was 6.
A second winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million from the April 29 drawing was sold in Peachtree City.
Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot is at an estimated $80 million to a single annuity winner.
As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Powerball will benefit education in the state of Georgia.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16.2 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 1.7 million students have received HOPE, and more than 1.3 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.