The television show's South Bend roll

1989 — December 31, 2005

Hoosier Millionaire: For sixteen years the Lottery's public face was a television program, and South Bend names stand in its record at the size the press kept them. Dr. Hansel Foley, a South Bend physician who served as the county jail's physician, won $173,000 on the show, the South Bend Tribune reported in 2001. When the show ended with a Grand Finale aired on December 31, 2005, Carroll Clark of South Bend stood among its last winners with $35,000; the finale's largest prize, $1,022,000, went to Clarence Moore of West Lafayette, the show's 191st and last millionaire.

The county line, printed at its size: The show's one $1 million South Bend–area story belongs, on its facts, to the county and to Mishawaka rather than to this city. Don Lowery of New Carlisle won the show's $1 million prize on June 17, 2000; he had bought his entry ticket at the Kroger on Merrifield Avenue in Mishawaka, which earned the store a $10,000 bonus from the Lottery. New Carlisle is a St. Joseph County town and Merrifield Avenue is Mishawaka's; the entry stands here at boundary size because the Tribune's telling of it ran in this city's paper, and it is not counted among South Bend's wins.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune (2001), via ProQuest — Dr. Hansel Foley of South Bend, $173,000 on Hoosier Millionaire.
2. Lottery Post, "Hoosier Millionaire" Grand Finale results (January 2, 2006) — Carroll Clark of South Bend, $35,000; Clarence Moore of West Lafayette, $1,022,000, the 191st and last millionaire.
3. South Bend Tribune (2000), via ProQuest/MBRL — Don Lowery of New Carlisle, the June 17, 2000 $1 million prize, and the $10,000 bonus to the Kroger on Merrifield Avenue in Mishawaka.