Tiff

Tiffany was born December 3, 1982 in Wisconsin. She began school in Wisconsin, then lived about six years each in Arizona; Iowa; and New Jersey before returning to Wisconsin permanently. She attended school in Iowa where she eagerly mastered weaving and crafting stained glass, although she was less enthusiastic about all the farming.

A car accident in her twenties left Tiffany with severe, chronic pain in her spine, but she managed both jobs and school. She earned an AA degree in paralegal studies and studied business and accountancy with a focus in marketing in Wisconsin. Over the years, she worked as a paralegal, salesclerk, barrista, engraver, carnival ride operator, and teleworker. She earned a Top Sales Performance Award at her job, where she worked for six years.

But it was neither her education nor career that was her life's focus. Tiffany cherished relationships. She kept up with everyone, celebrated their big events, listened empathetically when they had troubles, and made a difference when she could with thoughtful gifts and actions. A whiz at troubleshooting, she was everyone's first call for help with technical issues or assembling IKEA furniture. For the last three years, she was her grandmother's principal caregiver and a beloved "aunt" to her cousin's children.

Tiffany openly shared her struggles with bipolar disorder and the relief she found with ECT treatments. She encouraged everyone to shed any sense of shame about mental illness and to find the treatments and adaptations that worked for them.

Tiffany loved reading, baking bread, writing songs, crafting, and cuddling her dog, Marley. She followed the the local sports teams and adored "Murder She Wrote," British panel shows, stand-up comedy, classic movies, and Jane Austen adaptations. This year, she reviewed advance book copies for online authors and enthused about her growing connection to that community.

She was a committed Democrat who cared about social justice, integrity, fairness, and every citizen's responsibility to be informed and to vote, whatever their views. She respected former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, especially admired Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and was overjoyed at the election of Joe Biden.

Each of Tiffany's friends and family members can tell of a special time they had with her and of plans they had for more when a sudden, non-COVID infection took her life on November 9, 2020. She was thirty-seven.