Mountz Girls Scholarship Fund

The Mountz Girls Scholarship Fund was created in 2022 by Patricia Anne Chapman to honor her mother and aunts — Virginia M. Duffey, Glenna L. Rodman, and Jean A. Kibler, and her mother, Rachel F. Chapman.

Pat’s life was inspired by all that her aunts and mother were able to achieve in their lives and high school educations. An inheritance from her Aunt Glenna Lou was the seed money to start the scholarship, to be awared to female students — seniors and graduates — of high schools in Marion County pursuing an education in the fine arts, visual arts, commercial art, or art education.

Pat, a 10th-generation Marionite, said, “My aunts and my mother were all so very talented in so many ways and each one of them helped mold my spirit and my soul. Without these four people’s influence in my life, who knows what different path I might have taken.”

Pat is a graduate of Harding High School, The Ohio State University, and Ashland University. She worked for 25 years at GTE/Frontier and 17-1/2 years at the Marion Speech and Hearing Center.

The scholarship is an example of one of Pat’s generous beliefs — “Spend money on others, not yourself.”