Victoria Grell

American astrologer and wife of astrologer Paul Grell. In 1957 she and husband won $10,000 in a hospital benefits sweepstakes. According to the article in AA's Many Things (quoted in the source notes) as written by Wayne Turner, "the ticket was bought by Vicky on Market Street at about 4 pm, 13 Dec 1956 in her husband Paul's name. The drawing occurred at noon on the 14th and theirs was the last one of seven drawn out of about 90,000 tickets sold, each for a horse in the race to be run on the 15th, which happened at 4:16 pm. The story of the drawing with photos of both Paul and Victoria appeared in the evening edition of the San Francisco Examiner on the 14th and also in other papers. Also on the 14th Paul was offered $2000 for the ticket by a coworker and later that evening $3500 from someone on the phone, but both offers were refused. Their horse, Hollandes II, won by half a length and they received the top prize of $10,000 in the form of a check at the Children's Hospital on the 17th at about 4:35 pm. Their phone rang for several days as friends congratulated them. The article is unsigned but appears to be a collaboration between the Grell's and the AA editor, page 20: "We are indebted to Mr Grell, First-Vice President of the American Federation of Astrologers, for the opportunity to study the aspects for such a wonderful event..." She was widowed on 11/01/1997, San Francisco, CA and died there June 8, 2005.