Eugene "Gene" Boss grew up in Monroeville. He attended school in the Allegheny County Special system in Churchill and Monreoville and graduated from Sunrise in the 1980's. He works at the Monroeville Giant Eagle as a bagger and volunteers at Mercy Hospital two days a week. He is an usher at First Baptist Church and in his spare time he enjoys photography, traveling, watching TV, spending time with the family and playing with the family dogs.