LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — Tamara Davis, an attorney from Dodge City, Kansas, has been a frequent guest at the Lake where her mother and stepfather, Bryce Hayes, visited often. On one of those family trips, a car in need of repair and a stepfather’s love of muscle cars led to Tamara hearing her lucky numbers called at the 2015 Magic Dragon Street Meet, May 2.

The annual Daybreak Rotary Muscle Car Giveaway drew the attention of Bryce Hayes seven years ago when the Jeep that Tamara’s son drove needed repair. Bryce found himself waiting with more time than usual. He noticed a flyer about the chance to win. He bought a ticket and did so for the next seven years. He wanted to win that car.

The Hayes family was never able to move to the Lake full-time. Bryce passed away before moving into the home he bought, and his widow sold it. However, Tamara and her husband Lloyd Davis, with Tamara’s brother and his wife, still own a home here. That home brings them to the Lake where Lloyd saw the Camaro on display at Hy-Vee this year. He urged Tamara to buy a ticket. She refused at first, but Lloyd reminded her that Bryce had wanted to win that car. Lloyd talked her into that ticket—the winning ticket—in memory of Bryce.

When Tamara won, she and Lloyd thought of Bryce and how pleased he would be that someone in his family had claimed the Camaro. They continue to be grateful to him for the example he set, but they’ve decided to leave the Camaro and accept the money.

Bryce “was a pretty astute businessman,” Tamara says, “and I’m pretty certain he’d approve” of the decision to take the money.

On the day that Tamara heard her winning ticket numbers called, she and Lloyd had purchased a pickup truck for her son, a sophomore cadet at the Air Force Academy. If they hadn’t bought that truck, she says, her son would be driving a Camaro quite soon, but instead, Tamara will use her winnings to pay off her son’s truck. She’s confident that Grandpa Bryce “would like that.”


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