Tiffany Conner

Tiffany Cami Conner, age 48, died September 16, 2017 in her Mandeville home following a courageous three-year battle with triple negative breast cancer.She is survived by her parents,Susan LaBiche Vincent and James Conner, step-mother Rebecca Deano, husband Tommy MacLuckie, sisters Shannon Conner, married to Mark Flynn, and Eva Conner, her much-loved son, Morgan McCarty, and niece, Clara Flynn.  Although Tiffany is no longer physically present to share her unusually strong light and compassion, she leaves behind a lifetime of personal and professional interactions that left others grateful for having known her.

Tiffany was born in the US Naval Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island, raised in Metairie, Louisiana, graduated from Grace King High School in 1987, and from Loyola University in 1991.  She was a 25-year resident of the Northshore after a brief residency in Georgia.

At every point in her life,Tiffany was a teacher, in one form or another.She taught her family how to love unconditionally, and she taught her son, well, everything she knew.Hundreds of children learned about art, history, and their own creativity from her time as a parent volunteer at Woodlake Elementary and as a teacher at Loyola’s Kid’s Art Camp and at Stone and Paper Arts Center in Mandeville.Later in life, she was a voracious student of yoga philosophy and practice, seeking knowledge all over the world, including several trips to Chennai, India to study at the Krishnamacharaya Yoga Mandarim.As was Tiffany’s way, she could never selfishly hoard what she knew and demonstrated in the way she lived her life and through dedicated instruction.Tiffany became a respected teacher of the Yoga Sutras and The Bhagavad Gita in St.Tammany Parish and beyond Even the ways in which she,and her dedicated medical providers, attempted to do battle with her uncommon cancer will prove to be a tool for learning.Her pain and sacrifice were not in vain; her cancer, and the treatments developed to combat it, though not enough to defeat her disease, will hopefully provide information that will lead to treatments to save the lives of other women in the future.

Tiffany was very proud of the life that she created for herself, one in which she was surrounded by family, friends, and adopted animals while giving back to her community.She loved live music, working in her garden, and knitting, and more the better if she could combine those things with sitting on the porch with her pets.She was honored by a special recognition of her service to Ozanam Inn Homeless Shelter in New Orleans due to her involvement with many projects there, including the use of her professional skills as a Disability Advocate.She could always be counted on to contribute financially, but most people who know her have a story of her taking the time to share her sharply creative mind, whether to solve a problem or achieve a goal.More often than not, the stories from others are about her willingness to just sit, listen, and provide much needed insight and sense of humor.

Tiffany’s absence will be felt by all who knew her, but she has not gone as far as we feared.Her light is strong enough that it will continue to provide a warmth and guidance to our everyday lives and in the ways in which we choose to honor her memory through our own joy, gratitude, and service.If anyone would like to join with her family in a celebration of her life, join us on October 14, 2017 at Mar Villa Guest House, 2013 Claiborne Street, Mandeville,LA. any time between 2PM and sunset.As an expression of your respect for Tiffany’s memory, the family requests that in lieu of flowers that a donation be made, in her honor, to Breast Cancer Action (https://bcaction.org/), to Safe Harbor (http://safeharbornorthshore.org/), or another organization that you know that she would have supported herself.  Condolences may be left on Bagnell Funeral Home’s online guest book at http://www.bagnellfuneralhome.com/obituaries/obituaries.php.