Nancy Prowell Glenn Gaillard, 72, died on February 23, 2001. Born in 1928 in Champaign, IL, a daughter of Charles and Anne Tennant Dillavou. She studied art at the University of Illinois where she met and married Jack Prowell, former sports editor of the News Gazette. Of their love was born three children: Anne, Charles and Sarah Prowell. Before Jack's untimely death in 1955, she co-illustrated the Children's World Encyclopedia and began a life-long passion for the arts. In 1956 she married George Glenn, of Champaign, IL. From this love was born one daughter, Mary. She was widowed a second time in 1983.

Nancy was defined, throughout her life, by a warm heart and a talent for the arts so pervasive and natural it affected all those she came to know and love. As a painter and an artist, she was known for her signature style in fashion art. As a promotion manager and syndicated columnist for The Daily Oklahoman and the The Arizona Republic, she represented the vanguard of women in business. As a passionate, life-long poet, she published Black on White (Vekol Press) in 1988, and had been working for the past several years on a second volume.

She is survived by her beloved children: Anne Prowell and Charles Prowell, of Sebastopol, CA, Sarah Prowell, of Portland, OR, and Mary Lutz, of Tempe, AZ; her beloved sister: Mary Gibson, of San Diego, CA; six incredible grandsons: Jeff Ranney and Travis Prowell, of San Francisco, CA; Sam Prowell and Ben Prowell, of Sebastopol, CA, Jon Lutz and David Lutz, of Tempe, AZ; and two great-grandsons, Phaedrus Prowell and Parker Prowell, of San Francisco, CA.

We wish her eternal peace.