Como Charitable Foundation Scholarship

The Como Charitable Foundation was established by the late Lucella Snyder, who grew up in the Como community in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. Luella supported the organizations she felt were important to the community.

Luella was born and raised on the family farm in the Como community east of Winnsboro, where she and her brothers grew up. They never lost sight of the value of hard work and the importance of education, values they learned in their childhood years on the farm in Como.

Luella attended LSU during World War II where her uncle, retired Brigadier General Campbell Hodges, served as the school president. Her studies in the field of audio and visual took her to Europe and the Middle East after the war, but she eventually returned to Louisiana.

She returned to Como, where she shared her love of education, history and preservation with the community where she grew up. She was appointed to the Board of Control of the Franklin Parish Library in 1970 and a year later, named president of that board, a position she held for the next 43 years.