

“He was the most enthusiastic of us all,” Nina said. Nina and Johnnie’s older brother, Kenyotta Hines, was included in the initial entry but he passed away before making it to the show. Nina described each member of the family. “I sent that in, a short paragraph about my crazy family,” Nina said. The advertisement asked potential participants to submit a short paragraph and video describing the family. It was Nina who first saw the ad on Facebook to apply for the show. “We had the games at home and would play as a family.” “Everybody was on board because for years we actually talked about participating and applying to participate,” Nina said. Nina Hines works at Duke Research Clinical Institute, and Sarah Williams is a Human Resources specialist for Duke University Medical Center. His daughter Sharae is a textile designer for Belk and lives in Charlotte. One of his daughters, Shanece, works at a call center in Fayetteville. The younger Johnnie is a retired soldier from the U.S.

She and her siblings grew up in Maxton and attended Maxton High School for a year before it merged into West Robeson High School, which is now Purnell Swett. Johnnie, Nina and Kenyotta’s father, Johnnie Hinesm was one of the first black sheriff’s deputies in the county, Nina said. Williams was the alternate family member and took the place of Nina and Johnnie’s, older brother, Kenyotta, who died in September before the family was able to compete. his daughters, Shanece and Sharae Hines and Nina and Johnnie’s aunt, Sarah Williams, made up the five-member team.

Hines’ younger brother, Johnnie Hines Jr. The experience was worth more than money.” “It doesn’t matter how much money we won or didn’t win. “We were able to represent Maxton,” Nina Hines said. “Family Feud” is an American television game show during which two families compete to name the most popular responses to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. The Hines family, whose roots are in Maxton, competed in May on the nationally televised show. MAXTON - Despite the show’s name, a local family’s experience on the hit game show “Family Feud” has brought them closer together than ever.
