Garner woman to use $100K lottery winnings to fix up house

A woman from Garner won a $100,000 Powerball prize in the North Carolina Education Lottery and plans to tackle some home improvement projects.

Posted 2:35 p.m. Jun 23, 2021 — Updated 2:39 p.m. Jun 23, 2021

GARNER, N.C. — A woman from Garner won a $100,000 Powerball prize in the North Carolina Education Lottery and plans to tackle some home improvement projects.

Sonya Grantham-Griffis recently bought a winning ticket from a Han-Dee Hugo store on Benson Highway in Garner. Grantham-Griffis went online to the lottery's website to check her ticket status and couldn't believe what she was seeing. She had won a six-figure prize.

Grantham-Griffis’ $3 Power Play ticket matched numbers on four of the white balls and the Powerball in Saturday’s drawing to earn a $50,000 prize. Her prize doubled to $100,000 thanks to the 2X multiplier. Those odds of matching four white balls and the Powerball in a drawing are 1 in 913,129.

Grantham-Griffis claimed her prize Monday and took home $70,751 after taxes. She plans to use the prize money to “fix up the house” and put the rest into savings.

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