Connie Kovach Memorial Nursing Scholarship Endowment

“Everything is going to be OK; Connie’s taking care of me.” Generations of Powell patients were soothed by Connie Kovach’s calming nature and compassionate care. As Pastor Ron Lytle put it, “Connie was a healer.”
Educated as a nurse in the 1950s, Connie returned to the profession to provide for her four children after her husband’s death in 1966. She never let misfortune get her down. She was an inspiration not only to her patients but to other nurses as well, and many people benefitted from her special attention. By the time Connie retired in 1998, she was Emergency Room coordinator at the Powell hospital.
Starting a scholarship in her honor was a “no brainer,” according to her loved ones. Connie’s work was a calling more than a career, and her family felt that Connie’s memory would be served well by helping young people to answer the call to nursing at NWC, whose fine faculty and quality nursing program continues to make a difference to nursing in the Big Horn Basin.