Posted on 11/27/2002 5:31:53 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Pair beats lottery odds again
Virginia couple hits jackpot 11 years after winning $9.7 million
11/27/2002
RICHMOND, Va. - Winners of a $9.7 million Virginia Lotto jackpot 11 years ago, Clyde and Edith Shinault could afford to spend $60 a week on lottery tickets.
Now they can afford to spend even more.
The Henrico County couple recently bought a scratch ticket that will provide them $1,000 a week for life. They won the big jackpot in 1991, beating odds of 7.1 million-to-one.
"They are the largest two-time winners in the history of the Virginia Lottery," said Lottery Director Penelope Kyle.
They found their latest winnings among 16 "Win for Life" tickets they purchased last week at a convenience store.
"When she said 'Whoopee!' I had thought she had a hundred-dollar winner," Mr. Shinault said Monday.
The odds of winning were 1.2 million-to-one. Ms. Shinault, 59, will receive quarterly checks worth $13,000 before taxes as long as she lives.
The Shinaults continue to receive a $335,000 check each May from their first jackpot.
Not long after hitting that jackpot, both found out that they had cancer. Both have recovered.
"Our doctors tell us we're cancer-free," Mr. Shinault said. "I'd rather hear that news than hit the lottery."
While they have used their first winnings to travel and buy a larger house, their latest fortune will benefit their three grown sons and their families, they said.
And some, of course, will go to more lottery tickets.
"We could hit it again," Mr. Shinault said.
Discovery recently did a follow up on that guy. He drowned.
LMAO! Bro, I am positive that they got every Shinault, Shynault, Shinaulte, Shinalt, Shynalty, Shminalt, Shmidt, Shmithe, Shmyth, Smythe, Smith, and Jones in the tri-county region on their front doorstep claiming second-cousin-hood-twice-removed status... BWAHAHA! That is sure one hell of a way to get the family together...
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