Rosa Marie (Lipscomb) Londy was born to James and Mattie Kate (Gray) Lipscomb on October 14, 1943, in Buckingham County, Virginia. She was on of five children. She departed this lif on June 18, 2010.
Rosa was educated at Carter G. Woodson High School in Virginia and later attended Piedmont School of Nursing.
While raising her children, she worked as a nurse in Virginia, Washington, DC, Connecticut and Boston for thirty years. She was also a loving foster mother and raised and sheltered over forty children in the last twenty-two years.
Rosa was the sister of the late James Lipscomb and survived by three siblings: Dorothy Scott of Virginia, Nathaniel Lipscomb of California and Samuel Lipscomb of Virginia, five children: Anthony Fowlkes, Melvin Fowlkes, Kevin Fowlkes, Jasmin Bishop-Londy and Kiana Bishop-Londy, six grandchildren: Yvette Fowlkes, Shante Fowlkes, Jazzmyne Jacobs, Anthony Fowlkes, Austin Fowlkes and Adrianna Fowlkes, along with Dhonyale Jones and a host of relatives and friends.
Her funeral service was celebrated in the Shiloh Baptist Church, West Medford, on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, at 6 PM. Many relatives and friends were in attendance. Visiting hours were held, prior to the service, at the church, from 4 to 6 PM. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Beals-Geake-Magliozzi Funeral Home, Medford.