- Date Of Birth: August 9, 1950
- Date Of Death: October 8, 2019
- Resting Place: Anchorage
- City: Bakersfield
- State: California
Deidre Susan Ganopole, 69, died in Anchorage, Alaska October 8, 2019, after a long fierce battle with Crohn’s disease. Deidre was born in Bakersfield, California on August 9, 1950, to Gerald and Margaret (Mark) Ganopole. In November of 1959, the family moved to Anchorage. Deidre graduated from West Anchorage High in 1968. After graduation, she went to Western Washington State College in Bellingham for several years.
Her post-secondary education was interrupted by Crohn’s disease, the onset so severe she was not expected to recover. But to recover she did, and following her interests in politics and all things Alaskan, Deidre went to work for the state legislature in Juneau. After Juneau, she worked briefly for the Alaska Federation of Natives in Anchorage, but she wanted more. Deidre went back to school, graduating from the University of Idaho, Moscow with a BA in Political Science in 1977, and then from Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon in 1980 with a Juris Doctor. She passed the Alaska Bar later that year and had been a family law attorney in Anchorage for almost 39 years.
Deidre was a talented cook who loved to entertain, an insatiable reader and book collector, and loved everything and anything computer. In 1995 Deidre married John Osgood, another computer buff. When they weren’t working in their gardens, they traveled around in their 5th wheel, fished the Kenai with friends, and enjoyed the good life until John passed away in 2011. She missed him terribly. Deidre was also preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Mark and Lyle. She is survived by her sisters, Denise Ganopole and Lissa Budrow; her nieces and nephew, Genessa Younger, Nicholas Budrow, and Alexia Buitrago; and her step-mother Muriel Ganopole. Her old friends and many cousins grieve with us. … and while she was sleeping, the Angels came…
