Two Marble Hill residents claim $200,000 Powerball prize

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Two people from Marble Hill have split a $200,000 Powerball prize.

Jennings Bond and Barbara Trankle will each take half of the $200,000 prize from the July 10 Powerball drawing. The winning ticket matched all five white-ball numbers, which were 20, 21, 27, 28 and 56. A ticket sold in Florida also matched all five white-ball numbers plus the Powerball number of four to win the $73.8 million jackpot from that drawing.

Bond bought the $5 Quick Pick ticket at Ross Minit Mart, 315 Presnell St., in Marble Hill. The store received a bonus of $2,000 for selling the winning ticket.

Bond and Trankle both declined to comment on their winnings to The Banner Press.

Tammy McCoy of Scopus, manager of Ross Minit Mart, said she was surprised to learn that the ticket had been claimed.

"It's been about two and a half months," McCoy said. "People would come in every day and see the sign on the counter. They'd say 'you sold a ticket,' and we'd say it's been up there for a while."

The Minit Mart has had some small winnings, but never one for such a large amount as this one.

"When we scanned it we thought something was wrong," McCoy said.