A woman in Trumbull County won $1.5 million in the top prize drawing of the lottery with a ticket she purchased eight years ago at a now-closed grocery store in Vienna Township.

When Mary Buckner of Vienna purchased the scratch-off ticket on June 23, 2009, she won $5,500.

The Lottery Commission held on to the ticket along with 65 other entries until this past September when a final drawing was held in Cleveland for the $100,000 a Year for Life contest.

Mary Buckner is a winner again, but this time is getting the top prize of $100,000 a year for life.

Buckner chose cash and will now receive a lump sum of $1.5 million after mandatory federal and state taxes, totaling 29 percent.

If the William's IGA in Vienna, where Buckner purchased the ticket in 2009 was still open, the store would have received a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.