Life story
Born in 1952 in Newcastle, Utah to Darwin and ReVoe Hulet, Janeen spent her childhood with her four sisters and brother on the family dairy farm growing alfalfa and taking care of cows. After graduating Cedar High School in Cedar City Utah in 1970, she married and had three children Joe, Dennis and Scott. In 1977, the family moved to Las Vegas where Janeen began working in the travel industry at Hughes Air West and then at local hotels. After her divorce, she once again returned to Southern Utah with her three children where she ran her own travel agency until 1987. Janeen eventually settled in Tucson Arizona, where she continued to work in the hotel industry. It was in Tucson, where she met and married Ray Nickel. They continued to live in Tucson until their deaths in December of 2024.