Fannie B. Rosser, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, was the daughter of Edmond and Callie Rosser and sister of Maggie, Pansy, Joseph Irvin and James Boyd Rosser. Edmond Rosser was a porter for the Pullman Palace Car Company and the Rosser family apparently occupied a position of status and influence in the African American community of Lynchburg.
Rosser moved to Durham, North Carolina after being offered a position by the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in September of 1914. For thirty-two years she was employed by the Mutual, owned rental properties in both Durham and Lynchburg, and lived in Durham for the remainder of her life.
Although she never married, Rosser was a foster mother to Mattie Douglas Burton, and a guardian aunt to her brother's daughter, June Rosser. Burton married Dr. Earl Randolph Meyers of Fresno, California in 1946. They had five children, and Mattie Meyers became a leader in the Fresno chapter of the NAACP where she served as president for some time. June Rosser married Eugene Hudson Penick in 1961. She had a least three children and remained consistently financially dependent on her aunt until Rosser's death.
From the guide to the Fannie B. Rosser Papers, [1860s]-1973, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
