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Son wins $167m Powerball, shares prize with mom in Kentucky

JACKPOTS01 May 2025
3 min. read
Kentucky Lottery
  • A mother and son have brought home Kentucky’s biggest jackpot prize
  • The son bought the winning ticket, but his mom discovered that he had won
  • The winners have gone straight to the Kentucky Lottery only two days after the win to claim their right to the prize

It is the largest Powerball jackpot won in Kentucky of all time - $167m - with the winner, one Shannon Farthing, choosing to split his reward with his mother, Linda Grizzle. The Bluegrass State duo has brought home the largest lottery jackpot by pure coincidence and was unsuspecting of their good fortune.

Kentucky mother-son duo bring home the Powerball jackpot

Farthing had bought the winning ticket at Clark’s Pump-N-Shop, which will also receive a share premium for selling the winning ticket of more than $37,000. Farthing was not the one to realize that they had won. Rather, it was his mother, Grizzle, who found out.

She received a text from a friend who told her that someone in Georgetown, where Farthing had bought the ticket, had won the Powerball jackpot – the coveted $167m.

Grizzle checked her ticket to find out that the numbers were a match with the winning numbers from the Saturday, April 26 draw: 1, 12, 14, 18, and 69, plus the Powerball number – 2. She had some difficulty with the realization that her life had turned upside down after her son’s ticket had won.

She immediately called Farthing to ask, rather incredulously, if they had truly won. Her son proved the voice of reason, telling his mother that if the numbers indeed matched with the ones displayed on the ticket, then the mother-son duo ought to have won at least something.

On Monday, Farthing and Grizzled appeared at the Kentucky Lottery’s headquarters to verify that they had indeed won. They have not yet claimed their reward, however, as they have 60 days to debate on that as well.

The biggest lottery jackpot won in Kentucky’s history

"It's going to be a good Mother's Day," Grizzle told the lottery. As to what they can do now, they can choose between an annuity option or a lump sum payment, which will reduce the total price to about $77.3m after all taxes have been deducted. Most winners prefer to collect their money in bulk.

"Yes! Kentucky finally has a Powerball jackpot winner! And not just any Powerball jackpot prize, it is a record for Kentucky. It is $167.3m — so exciting! So exciting for the winner because the winner has won $ 167.3m , but also for the retailer," Lottery President and CEO Mary Harville effused in a public statement celebrating the win.


Image credit: Kentucky Lottery

01 May 2025
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