Marie Ann (Konkol) Lopac 1962 ~ 2020

In early February, 2020, Marie was diagnosed with stage four Adenocarcinoma. Cancer. "Will I partner with fear or will I take down Goliath,” she asked with the same fire in her spirit that she'd shown so many times before. In the months between then and that rainy day in May, when the cancer made its final play, her strength dwindled, but her faith did not. She fought fiercly. But God had other plans for her. Early morning, on May, 21, 2020, in Boise, Idaho, Marie Ann (Konkol) Lopac left the earth peacefully. She was 58 years old.

Marie had a unique, loving soul, even from the time she was a child. She came into the world singing, with huckleberry stained fingers and dirt between her toes in Orofino, Idaho on February 5, 1962 to Ralph and Linda Konkol. To her 9 siblings, she was "Murf," a shy, pint-sized red-head, with cloudy green eyes that sometimes changed to blue, and a sweet disposition. She loved to sing and dance, gaining boldness in the spotlight while playing stand-up bass in the Konkol family band. At 11, she moved to her forever home, Boise, with her family, where she attended Boise Schools and graduated from Borah High School in 1980.