Scholarship In Elmhurst Resident's Memory

ELMHURST, IL – Friends and family of late Elmhurst resident Kathy Dungan recently donated more than $20,000 to endow a scholarship in her memory.

The scholarship will be available at Illinois Valley Community College in La Salle County's Oglesby.

In 1978, Dungan, a Mendota native, received her associate's degree in nursing at the college. That was before she became a nurse at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago for more than three decades, according to a college news release.

The Kathy Dungan Memorial Nursing Scholarship is intended to inspire and support future nursing students, the college said.

"When she was 15, Kathy rode her bike to a local nursing home and asked for a job because she wanted to be a nurse," her husband, Otis Dungan, said in the news release. "My wife was born to care for others and spent her life doing just that. She was an incredible nurse, friend, mother, wife and grandmother. We hope this scholarship will help a student currently working in the medical field who wants to attend IVCC to further their career."

For more information on the college's scholarships, visit its website.