Scholarship Funds & Donors
Thank you scholarship donors!
Generous donors make it possible for Marion Community Foundation to offer an annual scholarship program with more than 160 scholarship funds. Each represents a significant person, family, or organization who believes in the value of helping others achieve higher education. Additional gifts are always welcome.
Click on each fund name below to learn more about the fund and how you can make additional gifts/contributions to it.
Marion Women’s Business Council Scholarship Fund
The Marion Women’s Business Council created this scholarship fund in 2017 from member contributions to…
Mary Ellen Withrow Scholarship Fund
Marion’s “favorite daughter,” Mary Ellen Withrow, the 40th Treasurer of the United States, created a…
Max Ross Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Max Ross Memorial Scholarship Fund was created in 2018, shortly after his passing, by…
McBride Family Scholarship Fund
Dosie McBride Created in memory of the late Doris Elaine McBride (1928-2022), the McBride Family…
Mitchell Libster Scholarship Fund
MItch Libster The Mitchell Libster Scholarship Fund was created in 2022 by Mitch’s wife, Cindy….
Mountz Girls Scholarship Fund
The Mountz Girls Scholarship Fund was created in 2022 by Patricia Anne Chapman to honor…
Nancy O. Whitaker Scholarship Fund
Chatterbox. Talkative. Vaccinated with a phonograph needle. Some people have the gift of gab, and…
Norman Withrow Golf Scholarship Fund
Norman Withrow (1928-2021) was known as a man full of life who loved to crack jokes,…
Paul Pezley Baseball Scholarship Fund
The Paul Pezley Baseball Scholarship Fund honors the late Paul Douglas Pezley of Marion. Born…
Pleasant Academic Boosters Scholarship Fund
The Pleasant Academic Boosters Scholarship Fund was created by members of the Pleasant Academic Boosters…
Pleasant Local Schools Board of Education Scholarship Fund
This scholarship fund, as the name implies, was created by the members of the Pleasant…
Quintin & Alice Linn Fund
Quintin Linn (1943-2022) was born in San Antonio, Texas, and his family made Bucyrus, Ohio,…
