The Florida Lottery announces today that the second and third Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE™ grand prize winners claimed their $1 million prizes from the drawing held on January 3, 2017, at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee. The two winners are Jeff Gottschalk, 54, of St. Augustine, and Gail Ferguson, 63, of West Palm Beach.
Gottschalk purchased his winning Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE ticket at Publix, located at 5415 North Oceanshore Boulevard in Palm Coast. Gottschalk said, “This win is even more special to me because the drawing was held on my birthday!”
Jeff Gottschalk poses with his mother and oversized check after claiming
a $1 million prize from the Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE grand prize drawing.
Ferguson purchased per winning Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE ticket at Publix, located at 828 Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach. Ferguson said she has a dream board at work with a Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE poster on it. “When people would ask me what it’s for, I’d tell them ‘Because I’m going to win the Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE!’ and my dream came true!”
Gail Ferguson poses with her husband and oversized check after claiming
a $1 million prize from the Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE grand prize drawing.
Each retailer will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling a $1 million-winning ticket.
Along with the seven $1 million prizes, 527 other prizes ranging from $500 to $50,000 were awarded in the Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE Grand Prize drawing held on January 3. Additionally, this year’s Raffle offered five weekly drawings, in which a total of ten $10,000 prizes, 250 $1,000 prizes, and 1,000 $500 prizes were won. The Holiday MILLIONAIRE RAFFLE game generated more than $1.7 million in revenue for education.
