Where Are They Now?

Friends say Terri Zimmerman Lunn has the perfect personality to be a realtor. “I’m really personable,” she said. “I’ll talk to anybody and I love meeting new people.”

After Lunn wrapped up a long career working in school administration, one of her friends suggested she try working in realty, and Lunn never looked back. “It just was the perfect fit for me,” she said.

Lunn graduated from Dublin High School in 1977. She married, had her first child, and stayed in Dublin until 1985.

Her husband at the time worked for Harris Hospital, and in 1985 the family moved to Crowley, Texas, for his job.

At the time, Lunn’s daughter was in the second grade, and she had another daughter a few years younger.

When her youngest started kindergarten, Lunn decided to go to work, and applied for a job within the school district.

“I wanted to be able to take my daughters to school with me, come home with them, be off when they were off and be off in the summer,” she said “That’s the reason I went into the school district to begin with.”

Lunn worked as a secretary for school districts for the next 20 years. In 1999 she moved to Wichita Falls and continued the work there, until she finally retired in 2014.

That’s when one of her friends reached out and asked if Lunn would be interested in working with her.

“I talked to her and she said, ‘If you’ll just go get your license, you can come to work for me,’” Lunn said. “So I did. I went and got my license in two or three months and immediately started working real estate.”

She worked for her friend for about a year, mostly on rentals, then decided to branch out to other types of real estate. In addition to rentals and commercial real estate, she also wanted to help people find houses and land.

So she took a job at a veteran-owned firm called Soaring Realty.

“I love it because I work from home,” she said. “I’ve got a lot of repeat customers now, and my business is very established. I really like to be a buyer’s agent. I love to find what people want in their dream home, and make them happy.”

Lunn plans to work in real estate for as long as she can.

She still lives in Wichita Falls with her husband, Nat Lunn.

They met when Lunn was working at the school as a secretary and Nat was coaching basketball, and married in 2002.

Nat, who was born and raised in Wichita Falls, still works as a principal at a school in Oklahoma, and the Lunns have four different pieces of land where they run cattle.

Between them, the Lunns have four grown children, all of whom live in Wichita Falls. “We’ll be here forever,” Lunn said.

Lunn’s husband has been a great source of inspiration to her throughout their relationship. “Without him I would probably never have had the confidence to go into real estate,” she said. “He is a hard worker and encourages me — he thinks that I can do anything I set my mind to.”

When she has free time, Lunn likes to help her husband with his cattle and ride horses.

“I also love to cook and read and have my grandkids over,” she said. The Lunns have nine grandchildren in total, all of whom call her Shiney (a shortened version of Sunshine, her husband’s nickname for her).

Last month, for Christmas, Lunn and her husband converted one of the bedrooms of their house into a game room for the grandchildren.

While most of Lunn’s family lives in Wichita Falls, her parents, Wayne and Ernestine Zimmerman, live in Mineral Wells.

Lunn’s advice to Dublin graduates is to go out and see the world. “There’s a lot out there,” she said. “Go find it for yourself.”

Editor’s Note: This column chronicles what Dublin graduates have done since high school. If you have any suggestions for other grads, email publisher@dublincitizen.com.