Jeanine Nix
July 29th, 1934 - July 21st 2026
Visitation
Tuesday July 28th, 2026
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Landmark Funeral Home
4200 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, FL 33021
Mass
Wednesday July 29th, 2026
11:00am
Little Flower Catholic Church
1805 Pierce Street Hollywood, FL 33020
Jeanine "Nina" (Donaldson) Nix of Hollywood, FL passed away July 21, 2026.
She was born in Austin, Texas, and raised in what was then the Canal Zone in Panama.
After graduating high school in Panama, she returned to Texas to go to college. In 1952, she married Robert Donaldson and moved to New York. It was not long before they requested a transfer to Florida. Here she joined the Magic City Sweet Adelines chorus and sang baritone in the "Fourth Dimension", a quartet that won the US Southeastern Regional Championship and competed in Hawaii (her favorite trip).
At age 40, with four of her children in college and the last finishing high school, Nina returned to college and began the road to a profession in social work. She obtained her BSW in 1974, MSW in 1975, (a MA in Religious Studies in 1984), and a Ph.D. in Social Work in 1992.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she worked professionally in the field of mental health for the next 40 years. The first 16 years of her career was spent working with children and their families at South Florida State Hospital. She was then introduced to crisis work and spent the following six years with the Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) with Broward County Mental Health. Lastly, she joined Henderson Behavioral Health in 1994 to develop a (child/family) crisis intervention team (FIT). Still at Henderson, she then returned to her adult crisis work with their Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT). Finally, she concluded her career at their South Branch where it was her pleasure to train students to be psychotherapists.
As an Ecclesial Lay Minister in the Catholic church for the past 33 years, she was one of the first Ecclesial Lay Ministers commissioned by the Archdiocese of Miami in 1979. She was very involved with the Healing Prayer ministry within the Charismatic Renewal, Chaminade Community of Faith. She also published a book inspired with words from the Holy Spirit titled “The Holy Spirit Calling” under the pseudonym A. L. Istner (A Listener),
She wanted very much to give back to her community more than she took from it and asks that in lieu of flowers, to please find a way to join her by donating anonymously to someone you know who is in need! She also asks that if you have not yet considered being an organ donor, that you think about it now, and if you are eligible to participate in any research studies (cancer, heart, diabetes) - to do it. As for herself, she often said: "When I go, I want to be all used up" (she was a brain donor, organ donor, and was an original participant in the Woman's Awareness Initiative since 1994).
The viewing will be at the Landmark Funeral Home, 4200 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, FL, 954-989-8220 on July 28th from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
A mass will be offered at Little Flower Catholic Church, 1805 Pierce St., Hollywood, FL on July 29th at 11:00 AM.
