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enjoyed tutoring students in the summer months. For a number of years, students from Thailand lived in the home with the Bruce family for the purpose of improving their speaking skills and learning American culture.

In the years after World War II and prior to the advent of motels, like numerous other families in Rappahannock County, Mrs. Bruce operated a tourist home for visitors traveling through the area. These tourist homes preceded the modernday bed and breakfast establishments.

After retirement, she owned and operated the "Spoon Cellar," an antique shop in her home where she specialized in early American Coin silver and sterling silver.

Mrs. Bruce was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. She joined the Rappahannock Garden Club during its second year in existence in the early 1950s.

Mrs. Bruce was bom December 20, 1912 in Woodville to the late Henry E. and Lucy W. Hawkins.

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