ATLANTA – A Leesburg principal has enrolled a $1 million lottery win. Mary Tedder, Ed.D., principal of Kinchafoonee Primary School, played the Georgia Lottery instant game Georgia's $500 Million Club and won a $1 million prize.
Her husband, Terry, gave her the ticket as a gift.
"He purchased the ticket while he was getting his morning coffee," she said. "He had already scratched it when he gave it to me."
A mother of two lottery-funded HOPE recipients, Tedder, 56, and her husband, a retired school principal, support the Georgia Lottery because of the educational programs it funds.
With her lottery win, Tedder plans to help her children through graduate school and will save the remainder toward her retirement.
"It's a surreal feeling," she exclaimed.
Chevron Food Mart, 1405 U.S. Highway 82 in Leesburg, sold the winning ticket.
