By Karen Gutierrez
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Joyce Branning of Mount Washington learned this week that she just might have some retirement savings, after all.
While she was making a grocery list to accommodate 29 Thanksgiving guests, a Channel 9 reporter was drawing the winner of a new $300,000 home in Florence.
Branning had bought one of the $100 raffle tickets. She couldn't really afford it, but the cause was good: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The raffle raised $679,000.
And then ... "Oh my God, it is me!"
"This is my retirement," Branning says. "I am just so blessed."
Branning, 52, is single and cleans houses for a living.
What will happen, she often thought, when she can no longer bend down to scrub?
Email kgutierrez@enquirer.com
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