Nanette Colleen Newell, age 67, of Pinckneyville, passed away peacefully at 1:09 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at Carbondale Memorial Hospital.
Nanette was born in Berwyn, Illinois on March 24, 1957, the daughter of Howard and Mildred (Sheridan) Watts. She grew up in Ina and Downers Grove, Illinois, was a graduate of Downers Grove South High School.
She went to Cosmetology school but found a true passion working for Fannie Mae Candies with her mother, as co-manager. That love took her from Downers Grove to Franklin, Tennessee with her family. After several years of working in Nashville at the Galleria Mall, she was asked to move to Southern Illinois to continue to work for Fannie Mae. After moving to Southern Illinois, she found a home in Sesser and raised her children there.
She finally became a homemaker, as her children were her number one priority, and wanted to spend as much time with them as she could. Once becoming a loving grandma she became the family babysitter, and she al

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