The sons of a former nurse donated more than $450,000 to Gwinnett Technical College to create a new nursing scholarship.

The Clarke Family Nursing Scholarship Endowment will award multiple scholarships each year to academically strong first- and second-year nursing students. The college awarded the first round of scholarships to four students earlier this month.

The scholarship was funded by the estate of Elmer and Ione Clarke. She was a nurse for more than 40 years.