Flood Victim Claims Lottery Prize
Woman's Winning Will Help Pay For School
POSTED: 9:06 pm EDT May 28, 2009
UPDATED: 9:24 pm EDT May 28, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS -- After losing everything in last year's flood, the luck of a Martinsville woman, now the state's latest lottery winner, may be turning.Patricia Huber claimed her $100,000 Hoosier Lottery prize on Thursday."It's been a bad couple of years. My roommate just lost her job yesterday and I've got a lot of pressure on me," she said.Huber, who works in the Information Technology Department at Indianapolis Public Schools, said she's been considering going back to get a bachelor's degree, but didn't know how to pay for it.But first, she'll make some more immediate purchases, and maybe take a vacation."The first thing I'm going to do is pay off my van and get a computer. I lost (mine) in the flood," she said. "I've never been on vacation. I've got friends in Australia that I would love to visit."Huber won her money playing the Hoosier Lottery's newest game, $100,000 Double Play.
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