Jeanette Muriel Palomo

Jeanette Murial Palomo, age 75 passed away after losing her 14-year battle with cancer on June 24, 2025 in Kent Ohio. Jeanette was born January 30, 1950, to Emma and Louis Oettinger in Cortland New York. She is survived by her older sister Carol Pride living in Georgia and younger brother Steven Oettinger in Texas. Throughout her life, Jeanette displayed a love of learning and teaching, receiving two master’s degrees as an elementary school reading specialist and a second in math and science. Jeanette was a dedicated elementary school teacher of distinction in San Antonio, Austin and Greensboro where she inspired generations of students with a love of learning and a fascination with the world around us. Always enthusiastic about new experiences and challenges, Jeanette took up new hobbies such as belly dancing, learning to play a variety of instruments (including a full drumkit), sky diving, stained glass, ballroom dancing, gardening, raising chickens, and hiking among other activities. Jeanette loved a dirty joke, word puns, eating good food and drinking red wine, and gag gifts at Christmas. Over the course of her adult life, Jeanette had many dogs, cats, hedgehogs, tarantulas, fish, turtles, snakes (Boa constrictor and Python), a spur thigh tortoise (Darwin) and several hermit crabs. Jeanette was a nurturing, supportive, affectionate mother to her daughter Natalie Noel Palomo Lovinski, two sons, Zachary Palomo and Ezra Palomo, and an ideal mother-in-law to their respective spouses. While known to many children as ‘Nana’ foremost in her heart were her two grandsons and two granddaughters (both with the middle name of Jeanette) who she taught a love of learning with her playful, patient kindness and affection. Simultaneously tender but fiercely strong, goofy and silly, sentimental and always planning for the future, our mother, our Nana and our friend will be truly missed.