Nibiki-Ankoet Woichom
December 31, 1931 — June 19, 2011
Nibiki-Ankoet Woichom
NIBIKI-ANKOET COLE WOICHOM, 72, of Atwood, IL passed away at 9:30 P.M. on Sunday June 19, 2011 at Kindred Hospital-Chicago North, Chicago IL.
Mass of Christian Burial was held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, June 24, 2011 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Arcola, IL. Father Barry Harmon officiated. Burial was in the Arcola Cemetery. Visitation was from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. on Friday, June 24, 2011 at the Edwards Funeral Home in Arcola, IL.
Nibiki was born (Naomi Antoinette Cole) on December 31, 1938 in Harrisille, NY. She was a daughter of Lionel and Heidi (Hilda Mary Phair) Cole. She married John W. Woichom on December 18, 1987 in Champaign, IL
She is survived by her husband John W. Woichom of Atwood, IL; four children Wesley F. Kennedy of Palestine, TX, Sheila Lee Kennedy Martin of Watertown, NY, Shannon Lionel Kennedy of Dover, NJ and Renita Kate Kennedy of Louisiana; one adopted daughter JoAnne T. Woichom of Aitape, WSP Papua New Guinea, and one step-son, William Tekwie of Wewak, ESP Papua New Guinea; sisters, Rosalie-Beth Seelye Martin and Christine Dee Seelye, both of California; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews, and step brothers and step sisters.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two grandsons, Nathaniel and Jacob Kennedy, and two aunts, Gladys L. Kinney and Violet Coffee, and step dad Bill Seelye, grandpa Michael and grandmother Minnia Cole; and several paternal and maternal uncles and great uncles of the Cole household family in Harrisville, NY.
Nibiki is an Amerindian of tribal heritage, the Wolf clan, Mohawk Nation (Akwesasne/Kanien'kehaka: People of the place of flint) one of six nations of the Iroquois League, of the Eastern Woodlands (Long House). She has a high School Diploma from Harrisville High, NY, a Nursing degree from nursing school Gourveneour, NY; an Associates Degree in Photography and Graphic Arts from Bucks Community College Pennsylvania; Bachelors Degree in Journalism from Temple University, Pennsylvania; Masters Degree in Marketing and Public Relations from Norfolk State University, Virginia, and a Dissertation short of a Doctoral Degree in Communications from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and a course short of an RN diploma at Lakeland Community College, Mattoon IL. She also taught English on an American naval Battle ship (with naval clearance).
She also spoke and read some Spanish, some German, and her husband John's lingua, Creole Tok Pisin and Dialect (Austronesian/Melanesian) AlingAli, and very fluent in French. An excellent conversationalist and a very effective and influential teacher of a variety of subjects, loves jokes and very thrifty; said she could squeeze the penny until Abraham Lincoln (embedded portrait insignia on the penny) cries; and said she could also sell oil to the Arabs.
She was very loving, very caring, very generous, and very industrious and durably adaptable; very knowledgeable in an endless list of subjects; loved to spend more time in the library than anywhere else just to read, and research. She enjoyed (organic) gardening, foraging, cooking and baking, and canning, quilting, sewing, weaving, collecting artifacts and old books, and making Amerindian beadwork, arts and crafts, and mechanics in auto-repair and maintenance.
Very knowledgeable in the Classics and American Literature, Nibiki loved reading: a couple of her many favorite authors: T.S. Eliot (Poet) "Hollow Men" and Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass". Nibiki loved talking modern sciences, physics, astronomy, medicine agriculture, wildlife, the soil sciences, biology, chemistry and religion/spiritualism and music; and a wide variety of other fields with respective specialists, and from her independent continuous studious readings. She also loved reading Khoons and several other genre of science fictions and writing; loved writing: wrote for Tuscola Review, Decatur Herald and Review, and the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, and several other major newspapers in the Philadelphia area in earlier part of her formative life; worked for the State of Virginia Park District and researched and wrote seventeen State of Virginia Park District Publications' and planned, researched, and conducted State of Virginia Park District Workshops.
In Medicine, Nibiki also served as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for Douglas Nightingale, Tuscola, IL; We Care Nursing Home, Arcola IL; and the Arthur Nursing Home, Arthur, IL; and was the first Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Jarman Senior Living Center, Tuscola, IL; and had also worked with the Lincolnland Visiting Nurses Association of the Tri-County (Coles, Douglas and Moultrie) area; and free lanced in in-home health care. She also loved pets and had worked as veterinarian assistant in Tuscola, IL.
She loved and studied theatre and acting in college and at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, film production. She loved music, singing and playing the piano, and sang with St. John the Baptist Parish Church Choir in Arcola's Catholic Church; and loved her family and friends. Had a wonderful memory, still remembered even her Cole family and her aunt Gladys' four digit phone numbers when phones were first introduced in Upstate NY. When she was a little girl. An A+ no-fault lady and wife to her husband John who admires, adores and loves her, skies and oceans breathes, and will miss her very much! Nibiki/John-John/Nibiki two individuals in one persona. I'll miss you hon, we, your clan and family will miss you; but we can find you, with your "man" Walt Whitman's, "Leaves of Grass" Thanks for the wonderful memories. Happy Trails Love!
Memorials may be made to National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF) ph: 800-934-2873
Mass of Christian Burial was held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, June 24, 2011 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Arcola, IL. Father Barry Harmon officiated. Burial was in the Arcola Cemetery. Visitation was from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. on Friday, June 24, 2011 at the Edwards Funeral Home in Arcola, IL.
Nibiki was born (Naomi Antoinette Cole) on December 31, 1938 in Harrisille, NY. She was a daughter of Lionel and Heidi (Hilda Mary Phair) Cole. She married John W. Woichom on December 18, 1987 in Champaign, IL
She is survived by her husband John W. Woichom of Atwood, IL; four children Wesley F. Kennedy of Palestine, TX, Sheila Lee Kennedy Martin of Watertown, NY, Shannon Lionel Kennedy of Dover, NJ and Renita Kate Kennedy of Louisiana; one adopted daughter JoAnne T. Woichom of Aitape, WSP Papua New Guinea, and one step-son, William Tekwie of Wewak, ESP Papua New Guinea; sisters, Rosalie-Beth Seelye Martin and Christine Dee Seelye, both of California; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews, and step brothers and step sisters.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two grandsons, Nathaniel and Jacob Kennedy, and two aunts, Gladys L. Kinney and Violet Coffee, and step dad Bill Seelye, grandpa Michael and grandmother Minnia Cole; and several paternal and maternal uncles and great uncles of the Cole household family in Harrisville, NY.
Nibiki is an Amerindian of tribal heritage, the Wolf clan, Mohawk Nation (Akwesasne/Kanien'kehaka: People of the place of flint) one of six nations of the Iroquois League, of the Eastern Woodlands (Long House). She has a high School Diploma from Harrisville High, NY, a Nursing degree from nursing school Gourveneour, NY; an Associates Degree in Photography and Graphic Arts from Bucks Community College Pennsylvania; Bachelors Degree in Journalism from Temple University, Pennsylvania; Masters Degree in Marketing and Public Relations from Norfolk State University, Virginia, and a Dissertation short of a Doctoral Degree in Communications from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and a course short of an RN diploma at Lakeland Community College, Mattoon IL. She also taught English on an American naval Battle ship (with naval clearance).
She also spoke and read some Spanish, some German, and her husband John's lingua, Creole Tok Pisin and Dialect (Austronesian/Melanesian) AlingAli, and very fluent in French. An excellent conversationalist and a very effective and influential teacher of a variety of subjects, loves jokes and very thrifty; said she could squeeze the penny until Abraham Lincoln (embedded portrait insignia on the penny) cries; and said she could also sell oil to the Arabs.
She was very loving, very caring, very generous, and very industrious and durably adaptable; very knowledgeable in an endless list of subjects; loved to spend more time in the library than anywhere else just to read, and research. She enjoyed (organic) gardening, foraging, cooking and baking, and canning, quilting, sewing, weaving, collecting artifacts and old books, and making Amerindian beadwork, arts and crafts, and mechanics in auto-repair and maintenance.
Very knowledgeable in the Classics and American Literature, Nibiki loved reading: a couple of her many favorite authors: T.S. Eliot (Poet) "Hollow Men" and Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass". Nibiki loved talking modern sciences, physics, astronomy, medicine agriculture, wildlife, the soil sciences, biology, chemistry and religion/spiritualism and music; and a wide variety of other fields with respective specialists, and from her independent continuous studious readings. She also loved reading Khoons and several other genre of science fictions and writing; loved writing: wrote for Tuscola Review, Decatur Herald and Review, and the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, and several other major newspapers in the Philadelphia area in earlier part of her formative life; worked for the State of Virginia Park District and researched and wrote seventeen State of Virginia Park District Publications' and planned, researched, and conducted State of Virginia Park District Workshops.
In Medicine, Nibiki also served as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for Douglas Nightingale, Tuscola, IL; We Care Nursing Home, Arcola IL; and the Arthur Nursing Home, Arthur, IL; and was the first Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Jarman Senior Living Center, Tuscola, IL; and had also worked with the Lincolnland Visiting Nurses Association of the Tri-County (Coles, Douglas and Moultrie) area; and free lanced in in-home health care. She also loved pets and had worked as veterinarian assistant in Tuscola, IL.
She loved and studied theatre and acting in college and at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, film production. She loved music, singing and playing the piano, and sang with St. John the Baptist Parish Church Choir in Arcola's Catholic Church; and loved her family and friends. Had a wonderful memory, still remembered even her Cole family and her aunt Gladys' four digit phone numbers when phones were first introduced in Upstate NY. When she was a little girl. An A+ no-fault lady and wife to her husband John who admires, adores and loves her, skies and oceans breathes, and will miss her very much! Nibiki/John-John/Nibiki two individuals in one persona. I'll miss you hon, we, your clan and family will miss you; but we can find you, with your "man" Walt Whitman's, "Leaves of Grass" Thanks for the wonderful memories. Happy Trails Love!
Memorials may be made to National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF) ph: 800-934-2873
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