Warsaw Students Awarded Hochstetler Memorial Scholarship
By FIRST SGT. CHAD D. HILL
Public Information Officer
The Kosciusko County Community Foundation recently awarded three local students with the Phillip Hochstetler Memorial Scholarship.
Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department Det./Sgt. Phil Hochstetler was shot and killed in the line of duty on June 29, 1994, while investigating a theft.
Det./Sgt. Hochstetler was pursuing a degree in criminal justice at the time of his death. Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine began the scholarship program for local area students who were also pursuing a career in the criminal justice field.
This year’s recipients were Anthony Boyer, Gary Spratt and Austin Whitaker, all students at Warsaw Community High School.