From left, Patty Honsowetz with her daughters Pamela, Rebecca and Melissa. Her family has set up a scholarship in Patty’s memory to benefit children in foster care and families with adopted children.
February 29, 2024
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February 26, 2024 1:35 a.m.
Fostered passion: Scholarship remembers woman committed to foster children and adoptive families
MOSES LAKE — Patty Honsowetz liked children, all children, and thought all of them deserved a chance. When her husband Rick and their children decided they wanted to do something in her honor, they thought about that. “I started talking to my kids about ways that we could, yes, honor her legacy, but also benefit something she was passionate about,” Rick Honsowetz said. “Which was children, specifically foster children and children from the foster system that had been adopted.”