A couple of months ago if you were visiting Evergreen High School you would meet Tyrone Curry as he gets out his broom for a quick sweep up after lunch. And after cleaning he would be off to his second passion: coaching the track and field team.

Tyrone is a humble man with a heart of gold, he says that he loves to have the place spotless and ready for the kids, and that this job actually keeps him busy. The irony is that Tyrone Curry doesn’t need to work. Five years ago he was on the verge of bankruptcy when he won almost $3.4 million in the state lottery. US lottery

“I know my wife says, ‘Oh, you don’t really have to work’ and I say, ‘Yeah. I do.”

Curry had a dream, even before he won the lottery, “Ten years ago, I said if I win some money, I’m going to put a track here.”

After hitting the jackpot, Curry bought new cars, a time share and took care of his family and students, buying 40 new uniforms. He was able to make this dream come true as he made a donation to build the new track. Lottery results

But he never left his job.

“If you’re not busy you get old, and I never want to feel that way,” he said.

In June Curry reached his 34 years of labor and should retire. He has admitted that it is very difficult for him because he loves what he does. However he has no plans of being out of sight at all and at that time he had already expressed about his plans to run for the school board after retirement.

A plan that worked out perfectly because he has been elected to the Highline School Board, now the millionaire janitor who won the Washington lottery must now step down from the job he loves and the teams he coaches.

Although Tyrone Curry has cleaned the grounds and coached the kids at the Evergreen campus for years, this school custodian has just beat the sitting school board president for a seat on the Highline District’s School Board and must resign before swearing in next month.

Curry said he’s coached his entire life and hates that he has to give it up.

“It’s tough,” he said. “Basketball season just started and this is the first time I’m not on the court. It bothers me.”

Curry, who says that one of the many gifts that children have given him is to keep him young, said he’s going to throw an ice cream party on his last day at the school, but he has to ask his wife first.

Although Curry has no necessity of working and no necessity of buying lottery anymore, he still keeps the habit and buys lottery every week. He says that the next time he wins he will pay for a new school tennis court.