Jacqueline Inez Mirkin

Jacqueline (Jackie) Inez Mirkin, Lesbian, activist, died in the comfort of her home with loved ones by her side in Gulfport, FL on February 27, 2023. She was 92. Jackie was a retired social worker whose professional work included many years of serving children, adolescents and families in inner-city New Jersey schools, six years on the faculty at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and several years in private counseling mostly with lesbian/gay/bisexual people and people who were homeless and had HIV or AIDS. She was also a long-time social justice activist on peace, racial justice, women’s equality and reproductive freedom, and lesbigaytrans equality. She moved to Pinellas county in 1997.In 2004-2005, she and her partner Edie Daly were active in the successful effort to get a Human Rights Ordinance inclusive of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender people passed in their home community of Gulfport, FL.

She is survived by: Wife, Edith F. Daly of Gulfport, FL; Sister, Enid L. Mirkin of Gulfport, FL; Niece and Family, Sharon, Jeffrey, and Emma Charloff of Medway, MA, David Charloff of Ft. Bragg, NC; Children, Stephen Daly of Mesa, Arizona, Peter and Cathy Daly of La Grange, N.Y., Philip and Donna Daly of Teaneck, NJ.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.neptunesociety.com/location/tampa-cremation for the Mirkin family.