Rose Downey

Rose Downey passed away peacefully in her home in the Bronx on September 7, 2018. She was 86 years old. She is survived by her daughter Pamela, and grandson Julian Downey Nixon. Rose was a devoted wife to George, and married for 34 years until his passing in 1994. Rose was the daughter of immigrant parents, Onufry and Justina Stoopka, and sister to Erica, who passed away in 2013.

A Bronxite all her life, Rose will be remembered as a constant neighbor having lived for almost 60 years in her Morris Park neighborhood. A consummate New Yorker, she had a great eye for color, was a foodie and a fashionable dresser. Rose loved her pets and garden, and was known to all for her “sayings” that comforted or raised a laugh. We will miss her.