Lottery luck arrives twice for woman
Published: June 11, 2005
Just call Donna Goeppert lady luck.
For the second time in five months, this 55-year-old Bethlehem woman has scratched her way to a $1 million lottery winning.
“Sure, that’s why people play the tickets — to win,” she said Friday, a day after her second win and still in shock. “But I never thought that I would win another million.”
Goeppert scratched her first $1 Million Blockbuster game grand prize in January at the Linden Food Market. That time, it took her three $20 tickets.
This time, it took 12, but persistence sure paid off.
On Thursday afternoon, Goeppert made her weekly stop at Lump’s Deli on Center Street to buy Cash 5 and Powerball tickets. On a whim, she also picked up one $1 Million Blockbuster game.
She said it had been a couple weeks since she last played, so she thought, what the heck.
Her first try resulted in a $20 hit, so she bought another and hit for $25, then came $50 and another $20 and so on until ticket number 12.
When Goeppert scratched off the bottom — as she always does first — and saw the word “claim,” she knew she’d won more than $500.
“I figured I won $1,000,” she said. “Not ever did I think a million.”
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