@PapaLeo No, I’m afraid that rumor started when Betsy Frimmer, who worked as a stenographer in Bob’s office for 17 years, got the bright idea of presenting him with a framed photo of the recently completed reservoir on the occasion of his retirement. Bob failed to get the joke, thought the lake was actually named in his honor, and spent the 7 remaining years of his life chatting up tourists at the lake and posing with them for pictures in front of the lake. No one ever had the heart to tell Bob the truth.
At his request, his ashes were dropped from an airplane above the lake, but a strong down-canyon wind carried them into the sewage-treatment retention ponds to the southwest.