Mrs. Nancy Poore Pierce, the widow of the late Frank H. Pierce III of Princess Anne, Maryland, passed away January 5, 2015 at the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland.
Nancy is survived by her beloved family, including son, Frank H. Pierce IV, his wife Yvany Peery, her daughter, Marie Rundquist, her husband Edward Nowicki, and her grandson Paul Rundquist.
Mother, wife, home-maker, and community volunteer, Mrs. Pierce made her family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. During her lifetime, Nancy was a member of the League of Women Voters, participated in the original "Earth Day" movement in the early 1970s, was a founding member of the German-American Heritage Society and was awarded the German Federal Service Cross for her research of German-American history. Along with co-editing several books of her late husband, Frank H. Pierce III, Mrs. Pierce also researched and published articles about artist Henry Ulke and Washington , D. C. architect, Adolph Cluss. Mrs. Pierce and her late husband Frank were active and contributing members of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center in Salisbury, Maryland.
All are welcome to be present at Mrs. Pierce's burial service, at Manokin Presbyterian Church Cemetery, in Princess Anne, Maryland, set for February 6, 2015 at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations are made to the Edward H. Nabb Research Center of Salisbury Maryland in honor of Mrs. Nancy P. Pierce and her late husband, Frank H. Pierce, III.