An Ottumwa woman already knows one of the first ways she’ll use her $2 million Powerball® prize: It will go to finish the home she and her husband are building years after they lost a house in a tornado. And now their new home will have some upgrades!
Tammy Gordy says she and her husband, Steve, have been building a new home after living in a rental property for years. Winning a big Powerball prize will now speed that up. She’s also thinking about new details for their home, like a walk-in closet and a hot tub.
Tammy, 56, is a dietary aide at a local hospital. She and Steve lived in Agency in April 2001 when the Wapello County community was heavily damaged by a tornado. The Gordys’ home was destroyed in the storm.
She says family is what’s most important to them, and it will stay that way. Winning a Powerball prize will just allow them to enjoy more experiences with their loved ones.
Tammy says she realized she’d won big when she used the Iowa Lottery’s mobile app Sunday morning to check some lottery tickets she had in her purse. She says she fell into her chair when the results of her Powerball ticket showed it had won $2 million.
Steve Gordy says his wife was making sounds that weren’t in English when she first realized the news, and then he also saw all the zeroes, and it took a bit for them both to get their senses back.
Tammy Gordy’s ticket matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball to initially win a $1 million prize in the game’s Saturday drawing. But because she had added the Power Play option to her play, it multiplied her prize at the Match 5 level to $2 million.
Tammy Gordy had just one easy-pick ticket for Saturday’s drawing and it was the only one in the country to win a $2 million prize that night.
Gordy bought her winning ticket at Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh, 1027 N. Quincy Ave. in Ottumwa. Saturday’s winning Powerball numbers were: 2-38-44-50-62 and Powerball 19. The Power Play® number was 3.
Hy-Vee will receive a $2,000 bonus from the Iowa Lottery for selling the $2 million ticket.
Tammy Gordy claimed the first of three big lottery prizes won in Iowa during a 48-hour period. The first was a $1 million Mega Millions® prize in that game’s Friday drawing. That was followed by an InstaPlay jackpot of nearly $400,000 and Gordy’s Powerball prize of $2 million, both won on Saturday.
The Mega Millions and InstaPlay prizes, won in Davenport and Cascade respectively, have yet to be claimed.
Congratulations! I’m so happy u can speed up the process and get ur house done.
Posted by: Lisa Yarbrough | June 28, 2023 at 11:06 PM
Congratulations! I’m so happy for u!
Posted by: Lisa Yarbrough | June 28, 2023 at 11:04 PM
Congratulations and good luck finishing building your home. Yes the money will sure help speed things up for you!
Posted by: Sharon Cihla | June 28, 2023 at 09:53 AM