ATLANTA — A grocery store worker is checking out a Georgia Lottery win. Jennifer Butler, 25, played the instant game Jumbo Bucks Classic and won a $50,000 top prize.

Flash Foods No. 0271, located at 1800 N. Ashley St. in Valdosta, sold the lucky ticket. Butler scratched her ticket in the store’s parking lot.

“I had just gotten in the car,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I actually started crying.”

Butler’s mother and brother were with her at the time.

“They were really excited. They were crying and hollering and jumping around,” she said.

Butler, a resident of Greenville, Fla., will use her winnings to help buy a new home for her mother.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.9 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia’s Prekindergarten Program. More than 1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 860,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.