Mrs. Elizabeth Lowton, 30-year old mother from Cotton Tree Village West Coast Berbice, has won $168,000 in a British National football pool at her first attempt, it was announced in London yesterday.
Mrs. Lowton left her three young sons in B.G last September to join her husband Emmanuel in a one-room flat in London and did not expect to see them for five years.
“That’s how long it would take to save the money,” she said yesterday.
Her sons are Moses, 7, Denis,6 and James 5.
Last week she staked $1.20 on a pool coupon.
A neighbour checked it and then “fell right off his chair” in excitement.
Mrs. Lowton asked him what it meant and he replied: ”your boys are just around the corner.”
She said yesterday: “There will be great rejoicing in Cotton Tree Village West Coast Berbice. The greatest thing of all is that I would be able to educate my children the way I want. Their education is the main reason why I came to England.”
(Guiana Graphic October 3, 1962)
