NCS FAX NEWS
May, 2002
Mary Lynn Pannill

Mary Lynn Pannill died Friday, May 10, 2002, of complications from
Hodgkin's
Disease. She was 53 years old.

Miss Pannill was the only daughter of Fitzhugh Hastings and Mary
Goodrum
Pannill. She was the granddaughter of Judge William Pannill and Mattie
Cherry Pannill and of Charles Goodrum and Mrs. Lutie Long. She was
named
for her mother and her great-aunt Lynn Porter, who survived the
Galveston
Hurricane of 1900. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 17, 1948,
and
grew up in Midland, Texas. She attended the public schools in Midland,
graduating from Midland High School in 1966. She then attended Southern
Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin, before
receiving
both a bachelor's and a master's degree in management from the
University of
Phoenix in 1996 and 2000, respectively.

Miss Pannill originally pursued a career in retailing, first
with the Lord
and Taylor stores and then with Joske's of Texas, Inc., where she rose
to
become divisional merchandise manager and divisional sales manager.
After
the sale of Joske's in 1987, she became general sales manager of
Dillard's
Department Store in Westwood Mall. She resigned from Dillard's in 1988
and
became a legal assistant with the law firm of Pannill, Moser & Barnes
from
1988 to 1991. From 1991 to 1994, she worked as a representative of The
Principal Financial Group.

In April 1994, she became executive director of the People With
AIDS
Coalition. The Coalition flourished under her leadership, increasing
its
staff from five to thirty and expanding from one location to four. In
1998,
she resigned from PWA Coalition to found Non-profit Consulting Services,
L.L.C., which provides technical assistance, grant-writing, training,
and an
evaluation service to non-profit entities, government agencies, and
corporations.

Miss Pannill served from 1988 to 1996 on the executive committee
of the
Harris County Republican Party as chair of Precinct 38. She was also
precinct judge of Precinct 38. She had been a member of the Cherryhurst
Civic Club since 1984 and led the successful drive of the Cherryhurst
Civic
Club to reinstate deed restrictions. She served as president in 1989,
and
remained active in the club until her death. She was for many years a
member of Christ Church Cathedral. She was a member of the AIDS
Caregiver
Team at Christ Church Cathedral and also a member of the Diocesan AIDS
Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. In 1996, she became a
member
of Trinity Episcopal Church. She was chair of the Stewardship Committee
for
Trinity Church beginning in 1998, a member of the vestry beginning in
1999,
and Co-Chair of the Millennium Capital Campaign beginning in 2000.
Under
her leadership, the Millennium Capital Campaign has raised more than $3
million for the restoration and renovation of Trinity Church, which is
one
of Houston's most beautiful structures.

She was a member of the Coalition for the Homeless, the Care
Consortium of
the Texas Department of Health (on whose executive committee she
served),
the Ryan White Planning Council, a member and presenter for the National
Minority AIDS Council, and a member of the Advisory Board for Project
LEAP
(an AIDS program). She was also a member of the National Society of
Fund-Raising Executives and The Houston Club.

Lynn Pannill's funeral will take place at 10:00 a.m. on
Thursday, May 16,
2002, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman at Main Street, with the
Rev.
William B. Miller, rector, and the Rev. Linda Wilson, associate rector,
officiating. Burial will take place in the Columbarium at Trinity
Church.
Her family thanks Michael C. Miller, her colleague at Non-Profit
Consulting
Services, for his years of support. The family also thanks the devoted
caregivers Bonny Prophet, Mary Elizabeth Walker, and Beulah Dones In
lieu
of flowers, please make any gifts to the Millennium Capital Campaign of
Trinity Episcopal Church in memory of Mary Lynn Pannill.