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Meet the 2025 Cattle Baron's Ball truck, jewelry shopping spree winners
TYLER, Texas (KETK) – The 2025 Cattle Baron's Ball is in the books and there are two new winners for the truck and jewelry shopping spree raffles.
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The 37th annual event held at the Texas Rose Horse Park in Tyler is the primary fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, who's mission is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Jill Powell, of Lindale, bought a dozen tickets a few days before the event for the $5,000 spree donated by Susan Robinson Jewelry.
'I buy them every year for cancer. I lost my father to cancer, so every year I buy five tickets, not with the intention of winnning because it never occured to me that I might win.'
Jill Powell, jewelry winner
A total of 258 tickets were sold for the jewelry raffle for a total of $4,420 in donations.
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Gladewater resident Isachar Perez only purchased one raffle ticket a week before the event for the 2025 GMC Canyon AT4 4×4 truck donated again this year by Hall Buick GMC.
'Being in this position. I haven't, and I don't know if I will ever have again, but it's very emotional. It's it's also very special for me, so that's why it helps me to know that even if I'm out here alone, at least that, you know, there's people like you guys, there's people like them. And I ended up getting in your vehicle.'
Isachar Perez, truck winner
Hall Buick GMC has donated a truck for the past 18 years to be raffled off during the event. This year a total of 543 tickets were sold raising a total of $54,300.
Texas country artist Wade Bowen headlined the 'Stars over Texas' event.
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