Drusilla Elizabeth Tandy Nixon (July 15, 1899 – May 10, 1990) was a community activist and music educator in El Paso, Texas.
[2] After the university was forced to close due to the 1918 flu pandemic, she was hired by the American Missionary Association in Georgia and sent to Atlanta.
[3] She had moved to El Paso for eighteen months in October 1929 to help deal with an asthma condition;[4] Lawrence Nixon, later her third husband, was her physician during this time.
[14] She was married three times: first to Webster L. Porter, an attorney and newspaper owner, in 1920; the couple divorced two years later after she gave birth to a daughter.
[7][15] Nixon was posthumously named an honorary member of the El Paso Women's Hall of Fame.