Toll Gate High School has announced the winners of the 2nd Annual Rita Craig Lynch Scholarship. The award is given to a student who exemplifies courage, perseverance and strength despite adversity and is an inspiration and a beacon of hope for others.

The award is intended to be used to support a high school student’s dreams and wishes for the future, whether through higher education, trade school or a certificate program. This year the award winners are Kevin J. Williams, $1,000; Sarah Sagnella, $1,000; Emily McMahon, $500 and Halee Peloso, $500.

The scholarships are given in memory of Rita Craig Lynch, a nurse, wife, mother of five and grandmother of 30 known for her caring and compassionate ways and business savvy, who raised her family in Warwick and lived a life of service and compassion for others. She graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Providence and St Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing. She and her husband, James Lynch, were owners of “Your Host Ice Cream Parlor” in Apponaug. She worked as a private duty nurse during World War II, was the first visiting nurse in the city of Warwick and a staff nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital until 1959.

The scholarship was founded by Marycatherine (Horan) Mamary in loving memory of her grandmother, Rita Craig Lynch.