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Loganville widow gets $200,000 home for free
Published April 20, 2007
LOGANVILLE — Gloria Horn has never been the kind of person you would call lucky.
But the 65-year-old Loganville widow decided to test her luck and won big time — by winning a new home valued at $200,000 from Loganville-based builder Meridian Homes.
“I have never been lucky,” said Horn, whose name was drawn out of more than 8,300 entries in the eight-month long Meridian Homes promotion. “My kids can be practical jokers and I thought they were playing a trick on me, so I really didn’t believe it. When I found out I was the winner, I lost it.
“It was nothing but tears.”
Horn, joined by members of her family, was presented with the symbolic keys to her new home on Tuesday, at Meridian Homes’ subdivision Neely Manor in Covington.
She can spend up to $200,000 on the purchase of a home or she can pick a plan and have it built in any Meridian Home neighborhood, according to Stephanie Ford, marketing manager at Meridian Homes. Horn said she is looking at an existing home in The Oaks at Mill Creek, an active adult community off Alcovy Road in Monroe which is where she registered for the drawing. The neighborhood is close to her four kids and seven grandchildren.
“After over 11 years in the building business, Meridian really wanted to give something back,” said Meridian Homes president Darrell McWaters.
Winning the home is a dream come true for Horn, who has lived in a trailer in Wagon Trail Mobile Home Community for 28 years. She has worked for BellSouth for almost 30 years but will be losing her job at the end of the year as a result of AT&T’s buyout of the company.
“Since my job is going away, I thought there goes my dream of owning a home,” she said. “I have to keep pinching myself to make sure this is real. After all the hardships I’ve gone through in my life, I look at this as a miracle.”
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