Obituary of Anne Constance Nourse
The Fauquier Democrat, 2 Jul 1959, 54th year, no. 29; pg 1 col 7.


Services Held Tuesday for Miss Nourse

Miss Anne Constance Nourse, a lifelong resident of Casanova, died Sunday night, June 28, of a heart attack at Weston.  She had just returned from Washington with her sister, Miss Charlotte Nourse, who had been a patient in Doctors Hospital there.

Funeral services were conducted by Bishop Goodwin on Tuesday at Grace Episcopal Church, Catlett.  Internment was in the church cemetery.

Miss Nourse was the daughter of Charles Joseph Nourse and Annie Carroll Simpson Nourse of Weston, the family home for more than a hundred years, and one of the oldest Colonial homes in Fauquier.

She was a talented artist and a woman of great warmth and generosity of spirit.  During World War I she with her sister and mother worked at the YWCA Hostess House at Camp Lee, where her brother, the late Walter G. Nourse was stationed.

In World War II the Misses Nourse established the first servicemen's club here, which later was absorbed by the USO.  With open-hearted hospitality, they made Weston a "home away from home" for literally hundreds of servicemen throughout the war years.

Miss Nourse was an active member of St. Stephen's Epicopal [sic] Church, Casanova, where there are memorials to a number of her relatives.