Obituary
Michelle Tipton, 67, of Orlando passed away Friday, January 22nd. She was born January 2nd 1949 in Perth Amboy, NJ to Adam and Vanna Pomianek, who preceded her in death. She is survived by her daughter Christina Hammock and son-in-law Damion, and her three grandchildren, Gregory, Jordan, and Julia. She is also survived by her older sister, Simone Skoczen and her husband Bob. She is also survived by her brother Glenn Pomianek and his wife Kathy and their children Vanna and Joe.
Michelle displayed great artistic and creative talent at a very young age. She was voted “most artistic” of her graduating class of 1967 at East Brunswick high school in New Jersey, and had the leading role in her senior class play. While still in high school, she received an award from,and had her picture taken with, then governor Hughes of New Jersey for poster art that she had created. She went on to study art at the Pratt Institute and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Her mastery of crochet revealed her genius at visualizing, designing, analyzing and illustrating complex patterns, and earned her a position as illustrator for simplicity patterns and later, as associate editor for good housekeeping’s needlecraft Magazine. Her abstract paintings earned her an exhibit at Rutgers University, and an example of her crochet work was selected for museum display.
For Michelle
What wisdom I have gained in life
Seems not enough for me to understand
How much she has meant to me
What better a person I am because of her
How much less I might be if not for her
So I cannot measure the loss
A depth my knotted rope cannot fathom
If I could envision the tenth of it
I might imagine the full measure
But no, even that is not in sight
And thus I turn to my God
Who would have the better measuring rod
As a father knows his own child
And empties the pockets of his life’s concerns
To spend the full worth of unconditional love
And in my turn, I beseech to my God
That her soul should be received
Free of these concerns
To gather a harvest of abundance
The unconditional love
She has without encumbrance
Given in this life
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