Anectdotes about Isaac

•"My big question now is, if Bob is telling God how to run heaven." - Rev. Donald Armstrong, Grace Church & St. Stephen's



• Isaac's dry humor and razor-sharp wit were legendary. El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark, a former city councilwoman, told a story about Isaac meeting a friend on the street after the downtown Municipal Courthouse was named in Isaac's honor in 1997.

"Mayor, you're still alive," the friend said. "I see that they've named the courthouse after you, and I thought you were dead."

"Well," Isaac responded, "if you had been that good of a friend, you would have been at my funeral."



• When she first ran for the City Council, Clark said Isaac paid attention to her campaign, and called her one day in his gravelly voice and offered advice.

"He had feedback from my first (campaign) forum," she said. "The first thing he said was, ‘Sallie, I have some advice for you: Lose the head band. Buy a suit. And get serious'. "

"And I was petrified. But as you can see," said Clark, wearing a blue suit, "I took his advice."



•Donald McGann, an Isaac classmate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, quoted from a cadet prayer. ". . .choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong. . .Boy if that wasn't Bob Isaac, I don't know who it was. He took that seriously. And it's tough some times to do the right thing, But Bob did it in his life. . .He was a giant among his peers."