Congratulations to Rosie Mitchell for being selected Resident of the Month.

Rosie grew up in Birmingham. She graduated Rosie attended Ensley High School in 1963. In 1967, she received her college degree in Elementary Education from Anderson University in Indiana. She taught elementary/middle school for 10 years. During this time, she led a program that provided oversight to home schooling parents.

Rosie attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville and received her nursing degree in 1980. She has held various education and nursing positions in oncology, Red Cross, doctors’ offices, hospice, research, Medicare counseling. Last nursing position was at Huntsville Hospital on the Psychiatric Unit (where she learned a lot!).

Rosie met her husband Jerry in Huntsville in 1975. He was her Sunday School teacher with two little girls. She became an instant mom in 1978 when she and Jerry were married. Jerry called her Rambling Rose. She is so grateful for all three of them. Jerry passed away in 2023 after 45 years of marriage. She now has 13 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. They call her Granny Ro.

Rosie returned to Birmingham in 2024 to be near her only sister and her husband, as well as her 27 first cousins and many high school friends who live in this area.

Rosie is passionate about The Chosen, Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes, and Double Oak Community Church.

She is a Bama Fan and loves her Monark Grove Greystone friends who call her Rosie, Rosemary, Rose and Ro.