Norfolk- Ann Fritz Bennett, also known as Ann Bennett Propert, died 23 March 2023 at a retirement facility in Norfolk. She was predeceased by her husband of 41 years, David Boyd Propert, and her parents. She is survived by her step children Kathleen Joy Propert, of Philadelphia, and David Bruce Propert, his wife, Amber, and their two sons, Benjamin Ambrose ("Jamie") and Rhys Llewellyn, all of Alexandria. She was born March 31,1940 to Lelia Blanche Barnhill Bennett and Charles Fuller Bennett in Durham, NC. She was raised in Durham and graduated from the Durham High School in 1958. She attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, receiving a BS in Nursing in 1962. After working for couple of years at the Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, she attended the University Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore receiving a MSN. She worked at the school for several years teaching the new area of Cardiovascular Nursing.

In 1974 she moved to Richmond, VA on the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing. She taught and practiced Cardiovascular Nursing. In 1978 she received a Robert Woods Johnson Fellowship in Nurse Practitioner Education and returned to Baltimore where she completed her Nurse Practitioner training in 1979 – Adult Nurse Practitioner. She became certified, and moved to Columbia, SC to become Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of South Carolina.

She married David Propert in 1980. Dave and Ann moved to Norfolk in 1981 and Ann joined the faculty of the Nursing School at Old Dominion University. In 1988 she moved to the Westminster Canterbury Continuing Care Facility in Virginia Beach as the Director of Clinic services with clinical practice until she retired in 1998. She has been active in the state Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners, as President in 1985-87 and the Historian until she retired in 2014. She remained active in the local Tidewater council also as Historian until 2017.

She became a member of a Mah Jong group made up of both Americans and wives of foreign officers with NATO. In addition she joined the Royster Circle of the King’s Daughters and developed a cookbook of member favorites that was sold to raise money for the Circle that was then contributed to the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and has received many awards for her work with the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners.

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