9 July 2004
Retiree, 68, Cleans Up In Lottery Drawing
Posted by Zane under: News .
A house-cleaning retiree no longer has to mop her own floors or dust her own furniture. By winning a $294 million Mega Millions jackpot, Geraldine Williams can hire all the personal housekeepers she likes.Williams, 68, a former college custodian who now cleans private homes, won the second-largest single ticket jackpot in North America, The Sun of Lowell reported Friday. She was to receive a ceremonial check Friday.“She was a wonderful person,” Mary Recko, a former coworker at UMass-Lowell, told The Associated Press. “Everybody liked her. All of us here are so happy that it was her who won.”
Friends and family described Williams as a down-to-earth woman who fully intended to keep an appointment to clean a client’s home until she was told she had to meet with financial advisers.
She has three children and eight grandchildren.
The $294 million is the highest prize in the multistate Mega Millions game. The winning ticket, sold at a Lowell wine store, will pay $11 million a year for 26 years before taxes or a lump sum of $168 million before taxes.
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