Upstate woman hits $2 million scratch-off lottery

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 posted 10:18 AM EST

WEST CHAZY, N.Y. Thanks to a stop at a convenience store to pick up a soda, Fannie Spoor can now switch to champagne.

The 57-year-old grandmother from northern New York won two (m) million dollars after buying a ten-dollar scratch-off lottery ticket at a Wilson Farms in West Chazy, near the Canadian border north of Plattsburgh.

Yesterday she received the first of 20 annual 100-thousand-dollar payments, minus taxes.

Spoor -- the mother of six and grandmother of nine -- was at the store to get a soda when she decided to buy a lottery ticket. She scratched off the ticket in her car and realized she had won.

Spoor is a homemaker and her husband is a truck driver. Her children says she's devoted to her family.

The newly-minted (m) millionaire says she'll probably buy a new house with her winnings -- and visit her sister in Albany.

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