By Bret Nolan Collazzi
Louise Scopac, the tireless Throggs Neck activist who committed decades to an array of civic groups, from school boards to Community Board 10 to the 45th Precinct Community Council, died on Saturday, January 6, at Einstein Hospital. She was 85.
The cause was heart and kidney failure, though her health had been in decline since a broken hip last spring, her youngest son, Ralph Scopac, said.
A Bronx native and a resident of Throggs Neck for the last 40 years of her life, Scopac is not linked so much with any singular contribution as with the breadth of her volunteerism as a whole.
She was appointed to Board 10 in 1981 and served for about 15 years with a focus on the Youth Committee, which she continued to serve as a community member after leaving the board, former district manager and current Councilman Jimmy Vacca said.
Overall, though, she was an advocate for making sure Throggs Neck remained clean, safe and free of any signs of decline. As a result, she emerged as one of the community
