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The win: The largest prize ever attached to a ticket bought in Mishawaka, on the record reached, was won on television. Don Lowery of New Carlisle won the $1 million prize on the Hoosier Millionaire show of June 17, 2000. Lowery is not a Mishawaka winner and this article does not make him one: New Carlisle is a St. Joseph County town west of South Bend, and he is printed here because the ticket that carried him to the show was Mishawaka's. He had purchased his entry ticket at the Kroger on Merrifield Avenue in Mishawaka, and because he had, the store earned a $10,000 bonus from the Hoosier Lottery — the figure given by Jon Oppenheim, regional manager for the Hoosier Lottery, in the South Bend Tribune's account. The Tribune's telling, preserved in the Mishawaka–Penn-Harris Public Library's newspaper record, is a store story as much as a winner story: Debbie Barnhill, a unit manager at the Kroger, got the oversized cardboard check for the photograph, while, as the paper put it, someone else got the actual big money. The claimant form is the simplest the record offers — a named individual winner, named in the press of record, winning a named prize on a named date, on an entry bought at a named Mishawaka store. That combination — full names at full size — occurs only twice in Mishawaka's whole lottery record, here and in the $100,000 article below; the other two million-dollar items that follow are defined by the names the record withholds.
The show, at its size: Hoosier Millionaire was the Lottery's public face for sixteen years, from October 28, 1989 to its Grand Finale on December 31, 2005, and its record is the early Lottery's winner record — South Bend's roll from the show, Dr. Hansel Foley's $173,000 and Carroll Clark's $35,000 finale prize, stands in the South Bend leg and is not retold here. The Lowery prize is Mishawaka's one entry in that roll, and it stands at the boundary the facts draw: a county winner, a Mishawaka ticket, a Mishawaka store's bonus. No Mishawaka resident is named as a Hoosier Millionaire winner in any source reached for this section.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune (2000), “Kroger gets big lottery winnings,” via the Mishawaka–Penn-Harris Public Library newspaper record (MBRL / ProQuest summary) — Don Lowery of New Carlisle, the $1 million prize at the June 17, 2000 Hoosier Millionaire show, the entry ticket bought at the Kroger on Merrifield Avenue in Mishawaka, the store's $10,000 bonus, Jon Oppenheim named, Debbie Barnhill named.
- Hoosier Lottery game-history summaries — Hoosier Millionaire debut October 28, 1989, Grand Finale December 31, 2005.