A Millbury girl who won the $7 million grand prize in the state’s first raffle game hid her winning ticket in a thermos and reported to work at a corner store before surprising her youngsters with the better news this week. Lottery checker

Yesterday, Kathleen Crewe, 57, broke the stories to her son and child that she’s one of the country’s most recent millionaires.

After the New Year’s Eve drawing, she slipped the $20 ticket into a thermos and packed that safely inside a fire-resistant bag, according to the state Lottery. She brought her youngsters to the Lottery’s Braintree headquarters yesterday to make claims her prize once it re-opened after the long vacation weekend. Lottery winning numbers

The overwhelmed lottery winner, who declared her full address was printed in her hometown paper, declined to be interviewed when reached at work today, as did a boss at Goretti’s Market in Millbury, where Crewe is the store controller and purchased the ticket.

She told lottery staffers she was “absolutely stunned” and intended to use some of the money to help her mother complete house repairs.

The game’s second place winner, Ronald Tiemann, 47, of Plymouth, landed a $1 million prize. Tiemann, his wife and mother-in-law all acquired tickets and checked the winning numbers together. The self employed IT consultant and father of two told the Lottery he intends to put some of the money towards his daughter’s varsity fund and send his mother-in-law on an Italian holiday.

Crewe and Tiemann were not the sole winners who showed up at lottery offices yesterday to collect their one-off sum winnings. The lotto announced there were 1,022 winners in the game, including 20 who won $50,000 each and One thousand folks who won prizes of $1,000.