ATLANTA – A Douglasville man is applauding a large windfall from the Georgia Lottery with numbers selected from a Quik Pik. Dan Casteel, 63, matched all five winning numbers from the April 5 Fantasy 5 drawing, winning the $488,279 jackpot prize.
Winning numbers from the April 5 Fantasy 5 drawing were: 3-14-33-38-39.
Exxon Food Mart, 5040 Highway 5 in Douglasville, sold the winning Quik Pik ticket.
Casteel discovered the results while on the Georgia Lottery’s website.
He claimed his prize April 6 at Georgia Lottery headquarters in Atlanta.
“This is one of the biggest events of my life,” Casteel explained.
The lucky winner retired four years ago working in logistics for The Kroger Co. He and his wife have two adult children and four grandchildren.
“At my age, it feels so nice to have a nest egg,” Casteel shared.
Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $16 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.
For more information on the Georgia Lottery Corp., please visit:
www.galottery.com and www.lotterybenefitsgeorgians.com
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