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Dallas Father of 4 Wins $250K Fantasy 5 Prize

He is one of three winners to clinch the jackpot from matching all five winning numbers.

A Dallas father of four has won a hefty prize playing Fantasy 5. Raymond Edwards Jr., 55, won the $250,629 jackpot prize from the Aug. 10 Fantasy 5 drawing.

He is one of three winners to clinch the jackpot from matching all five winning numbers.

Using a combination of his own numbers, Edwards purchased his ticket at Exxon Food Mart, 257 Buchanan Highway in Dallas. Additional jackpot winning tickets were purchased in Clayton and Athens.

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The lucky winner discovered his prize while watching WSB-TV following the televised drawing.

“I checked the Georgia Lottery’s website, and I shouted ‘We got it,’ ” Edwards recalled.

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Excited, Edwards and his wife, Carol, have no plans at the moment for the winnings.

Winning numbers from the Aug. 10 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 4-5-20-23-34.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $14.6 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 1.2 million 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.


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