Philadelphia-Statewide-Unknown County PA Archives Obituaries.....Washington , Rosalie Wilson  March 6, 2017
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Rosalie Regina was born November 19, 1923, the third child of Eva and John Wilson,
in Baltimore, 
MD.  Rosalie attended Sharon Baptist Church and was an honored graduate of Frederick
Douglas 
High School in 1944.  She earned a certificate of nursing from Freedman’s Hospital
School of 
Nursing,(Washington, D.C.), in 1946, where she assisted the prominent Doctor Charles
Drew during 
surgical procedures.
Rosalie met Sinclair Washington at a U.S.O. service center in 1943. They were
married in 1945, 
after Sinclair returned from World War II. In 1946 they migrated to Philadelphia
where their first 
daughter Kaffy Margaret was born in 1947.  In 1950, they bought a home on Elder
Avenue in 
Yeadon, PA, and two years later their second daughter, Eve Darcel was born.
Rosalie worked as a registered nurse at Children’s Hospital, (18th & Bainbridge
Sts.), where she 
specialized C. Everett Coop’s (Surgeon General), patients.  In 1959, she became a
school nurse for 
the School District of Philadelphia and did earn a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in
Education, from 
West Chester State College, in 1963.  In 1981, Rosalie graduated from Cheyney State
College, 
Summa Cum Laude, with a Master’s Degree in Administration, delivering the graduating
address.
In 1971, she chartered and became President of The Philadelphia Public School Nurses

Association, which became the first union of registered nurses in the United States,
in 1972; Local 
3383, AFT AFL CIO.  She remained president of this union,(350 nurses), unopposed for
14 years, 
until she retired in 1986. She also was a member of the Philadelphia Public School
Retired 
Employees Association from 1986 to 2007.  She gave health seminars and substituted
occasionally 
until 2008.  
Rosalie was preceded in death by her husband Sinclair (1988), and her daughter
Kaffy, (2003). She 
is survived by one daughter, Eve, two sisters Geraldine and Joan, two brothers in
law, one son in 
law, three grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and a host of
other relatives and 
friends. She will be missed by all.  

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