A dream comes true: Grove man wins lottery
Published: April 19, 2006
Jerry Harry wasn’t much of a gambler before February, but right around his 47th birthday he had a dream he won the lottery.
“I had a dream I hit the lottery, and I’ve played every day since,” he said.
While most customers were focused on the huge Powerball jackpot, Harry bought a Cash 5 ticket April 5 and won $267,938.
“I knew about two minutes after the drawing that I won, but then I wanted to know how many other people I would have to share the pot with,” Harry said.
The Cash 5 kitty is usually shared by several players who match all five numbers, but Harry was the only winner that night.
He said the money won’t change his life much.
As owner of Harry’s Refuse Service on Nesbit Street, Harry said he would continue to own and work at his business where he occasionally has to empty out dumpsters, and said he wouldn’t be going on any vacations or buying fancy cars.
The money is not enough for him to retire now, but he said he will invest it.
He took the ticket to the Erie lottery office to have it confirmed and made a copy to hang on the wall at T-N-T Deli on Third Street, where he bought the ticket.
Harry still stops by the deli every day for lottery tickets, and he said he doesn’t plan to quit trying his luck.
A Rocky Grove High School graduate, Harry lives in Rocky Grove with his wife, Judy, who owns Bahama Breeze Tanning Salon on 13th Street in Franklin.
Harry’s brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Larry and Liz Young, own T-N-T Deli. Besides Harry, there have been several other winning tickets of lower amounts like $500 sold at the store.
The couple has owned the store for five years and said ticket sales are higher than they have ever been because of Harry’s win.
“We’ve had customers come in saying ‘I heard you had some winners here and I want to win too,’” Liz Young said.
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