Tennessee Powerball winners: No big changes to everyday lives
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Tennessee Powerball winners: No big changes to everyday lives
The small-town Tennessee couple that bought one of three magic tickets splitting the world-record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot says they don’t plan to quit their jobs or buy a new house. Their daughter, however, wants a horse. After appearing on national television, John Robinson and wife Lisa went to the Tennessee lottery headquarters in Nashville on Friday to have their winning ticket verified by lottery officials. The couple’s lump sum payout is about $327 million after buying the ticket for Wednesday night’s drawing at a grocery store in their west Tennessee hometown of Munford, population 6,000. Two other winning tickets were bought in California and Florida.
That’s what we’ve done all our lives, is work. You just can’t sit down and lay down and not do nothing anymore. Because how long are you going to last?
John Robinson
At a news conference Friday, the Robinsons said they won’t stop working and won’t make any wild purchases. They’ll pay off their mortgage and their daughter’s student loans, but have no desire to move from their gray, one-story house in a close-knit community into a luxurious compound somewhere. Lisa works at a dermatologist’s office. John is a warehouse supervisor. Both plan to return to work Monday, they said.
We do want to enjoy a little bit of our earnings, and maybe invest a little bit of it so our son and daughter will have it and they’ll never need anything again.
John Robinson
