Robert C. Rose (2017)

Bob Rose was a country boy with good country manners and sensibilities, a trait that many admired.

            Bob’s family (parents Ralph and Helen Comstock Rose, and sister Carol) moved from Mt. Vernon when he was six to the Hillcrest Road farmstead where he lived the country boy’s life. A member of the GCS Class of 1953, Bob served in the U.S. Navy for four years. Working for the NYS Police for a dozen years, Bob then was chosen to go to the NYS Police Academy, working at a counselor and then as quartermaster until his 1992 retirement.

            He married Jeannette Singer in 1959, resided near her parents’ resort Alberta Lodge on Red Mill Road, and had two children, John and Denise.

            In 1992, Bob undertook an acting Justice position for the Town of Greenville, a position he would assume fully on his own in the next election and for the next several elections. Nineteen of those years were co-worked with Greenville’s other justice, Richard Schreiber, a friend that Bob valued. He retired from the Justice position in 2011 because of poor health.

            Bob had a friendly, relaxed, common sense approach to life. He could tell a good yarn, was deemed a good judge of character, had a knack of remembering names, and engendered respect and love from those who knew him, even those appearing before him in court. Son John can attest to all those qualities when he worked for the State Police, with many of those familiar with his dad verifying his father’s character. And many of you reading this saw those qualities also, knowing we lost a quiet pillar of strength with Bob’s passing.

 - by Don Teator, Greenville Town Historian