Generous Lottery Winner Dies
May 25th 2018 14:06
A woman who gave away most of her Lotto winnings to charities has died at the age of 77. Barbara and Ray Wragg, who won £7.6 million in 2000 on the UK National Lottery had given away around £6 million of their prize money before Barbara’s death. Barbara and her husband lived in Sheffield, UK and gave away much of their fortune to local hospitals. Aside from the hospitals that benefited from the couples generosity were family and friends, a group of war veterans who were gifted the funding needed to make a memorial trip to Monte Cassino, and a children’s cancer unit in Weston Park Hospital.
Mrs Wragg said "You get a buzz. It's probably a bit selfish giving money away sometimes because we did get pleasure from it. "It's like when you give somebody a Christmas present and you watch them open it and they think it's absolutely wonderful. Well, when we've given people money we get that all the time." Barbara sadly died from sepsis following a surgical procedure.
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Written by Chris Brown