Dolores Snyder Nursing Scholarship Endowment

The Dolores Snyder Nursing Scholarship was started in 2004 after Dolores lost her life to colon cancer. In gratitude for the loving care that Dolores received from the Cody medical community during her illness, Dolores’ husband Bob approached one of her doctors about making a donation to the hospital in her honor. “If you really want to help the hospital,” the doctor said, “you’ll start a nursing scholarship at Northwest College. We need more nurses, and their program is top-notch.” And so Bob and his three children, Lelani, Blaine, and Angela, followed this advice and endowed a scholarship in Dolores’ memory.
Education has always been important to the Snyder family. Dolores had a Master’s Degree in Music from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Bob received his degree at the University of Wyoming after he came home from the Korean War. “I knew I had to get an education. Everyone else in my family had one. Dad was the top graduate at Penn State—he didn’t want to go to the coal mines, so he got an engineering degree and eventually started Billings Gas.” Bob became a CPA, and after a few years in Denver, he and Dolores moved to Cody to raise their family.
Dolores will long be remembered in Cody as a member of the Cody Music Club, the director of the choir at the Episcopal Church, and a woman who threw her energy and her sense of fun into everything she did in her community. She was an active contributing member of her community, and the Dolores Snyder Nursing Scholarship is a lasting reminder of Dolores’s dedication to giving back.