Nadine Poole Winter, a charter member of the D.C. Council who represented Ward 6 from 1975 through 1991, died last Friday. She was 87.

Winter, who had lived in the city since 1947, was one of the District’s foremost social services activists, buttressing her long service on the Council with stints as the Executive Director of Hospitality House — which provided day care and homeless services to underprivileged residents — and as one of the founding members of the National Congress of Black Women and an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization. During her tenure on the Council, Winter sponsored a bill which would require all residents to recycle, among many other accomplishments. She was unseated from the Council by Harold Brazil in 1990.

Winter is only the eighth member of the D.C. Council to pass away, the first since Hilda Mason died in December 2007. According to At-Large Councilmember David Catania, Winter will lie in repose inside the John A. Wilson Building on Thursday, September 1, from 5 to 7 p.m.