AVON LAKE — A Perry woman has won the St. Jude Dream Home.

For a $100 raffle ticket that 57-year-old Beverly Nobles purchased earlier this year she has won a 3,238-square-foot house, valued at $370,000, located in the Currant Village subdivision of Avon Lake off Kossuth Drive.

“That’s much more than my current home,” said Nobles, who has lived in her 2,365-square-foot home in Perry for the last 21 years.

Nobles hasn’t even seen the three-bedroom home, with its two and a half baths, a two-car garage, front and backyard landscaping and a first-floor master suite. She purchased the raffle ticket by mail and has only seen photos of her new home online.

“I guess I should probably take a look at it first, huh?” she said, laughing.

Nobles’ name was drawn live on 19 Action News on Sunday afternoon while she was running errands. When she returned home Sunday evening, her phone was ringing off the hook.

“I thought the whole thing was a joke,” she said. “I had just walked in the door and I heard all these people laughing in the background, so I thought, ‘Somebody’s playing a prank.’ ”

She didn’t even know the drawing was Sunday, but the woman on the other end told her she was the big winner and gave her some phone numbers for the producer at 19 Action News and the St. Jude Dream Home office in Columbus as proof.

“They wanted me to come right away, but I told them I live an hour away and I just couldn’t,” she said. “I’m still in shock.”

This was the third straight year Nobles had purchased a raffle ticket. She’s had dreams of moving west of the Cuyahoga River ever since her son moved to Bay Village.

She retired a few years ago and her husband retired as a school principal Friday.

“It came at a perfect time I guess,” she said.

Moving with her will be her husband and a cat that belongs to her son. She doesn’t know when she’ll be allowed to move in or how she’ll be able to sell her current home, which she said has been on the market off and on the last few years.

In addition to Lorain County’s newest resident, other locals also won big in the St. Jude Dream Home raffle. Avon Lake resident Jenette Simpson won a $5,000 shopping spree to Value City Furniture.

Residents in Elyria, Avon and Vermilion won gift cards to restaurants and shops, some for as much as $1,000.

Proceeds from the raffle benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other diseases. The hospital is based in Memphis.

Contact Adam Wright at 329-7129 or awright@chroniclet.com

DID YOU WIN?*

Grand Prize

Winner: Beverly Nobles of Perry

The St. Jude Dream Home house, built by Gamellia Homes, is valued at approximately $370,000, and located in the Currant Village community of Avon Lake.

Early Bird Prize

Winner: Pat Conkey of Cleveland

A Cleveland Cavaliers VIP Package (including a suite for 18 individuals, three parking passes and a basketball autographed by Anderson Varejao)

Open House Prize

Winner: Jenette Simpson of Avon Lake, A $5,000 shopping spree at Value City Furniture.

Gift Cards

Valued at $1,000

Great Clips winner: Sherry Elpiner of South Euclid

Chili’s winner: Cynthia Socha of Bay Village

Invisible Fence winner: Judith Hartle of Vermilion

CVS winner: Rita Tanner of Elyria

Oreck winner: John Hollis of Akron

Visa gift card winner: Cathleen Wilson of South Euclid

Melting Pot winner: Kevin Kelley of Cleveland

Giant Eagle winner: Mary Varosa of Avon

Chili’s winner: Jan Mitchel of Avon Lake

Silver Fox Florist winner: John Romaga of Cleveland

Target winner: Marjorie Palesky of Middleburg Heights

Williams-Sonoma winner: Colleen McGuire of Avon Lake

Cleveland Indians suite winner: Robert Carney of Cleveland

Washer and dryer winner: Ron Jeton (city unknown)

*Names were drawn live Sunday afternoon on WOIO CBS 19.

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