Rosie McQueen

Rosie Lee McQueen was born in Selma, Alabama, moving with her parents to Chicago, where she graduated from Englewood High School. After high school, she attended Wilson Junior College and graduated from The Chicago Conservatory of Music. She moved to Rock Island, Illinois, in 1958. By 1968, she had a Sunday morning radio program, "Spiritual Lights," on WGEN Radio in nearby Geneseo, Illinois. In June 1971, she became ordained as a minister, founding and organizing the Moses Temple Community Church in Rock Island. She relocated her ministry to Atlanta, Georgia, in the summer of 1977. Rosie Lee McQueen passed away in the Atlanta area on March 14, 2011.