Robert Gene Rose is the manager of the Downtown Wheeling Location and the co-manager of the South Wheeling location. Rose, who has been with Kepner Funeral Homes since 1995, began working in funeral services in 1976. Started out with the McCoy and Beiswenger Funeral Homes, also of Wheeling. He is a graduate of the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science.

He is active in the St. Vincent Parish, where he is a member of the Parish School Board. He is also a member of the Wheeling-Ohio County Rotary Club. He is also a past Vice-President of the St. Vincent DePaul Parent Teacher Partnership, and was a Valley Grove councilman from 1988-92.

Bob Rose is married to the former Karen Sengewalt of Warwood and the couple have two daughters, Brandi Lynn, a student at West Virginia University and Brittany Nicole, a student at Wheeling Park High School.