“Bob had a heart of gold but he was a driver. In a nice way, he would drive you to do your best. Iron sharpens iron and the best make you better.”

That was how former fire team chief Michael Myers described Bob Robson on Wednesday. Robson, 64, spent the past 13 years working for Colorado Springs as a machinist, wildland fire responder and a supervisor for Colorado Springs Utilities’ machine welding shop.

Tributes poured in for him last week after Robson died from cancer in mid-October. The Utilities Board of Directors approved a resolution on Wednesday to offer its condolences to the Robson family. Around two dozen of his relatives, co-workers and friends filled the meeting room to accept the resolution in his honor.

“We are seeing the love he shared to everyone shown back to us now,” his daughter Gabby Murphy said.

Robson was born in Pueblo in April 1961 but lived in Colorado Springs for nearly his whole life. His father Rodrick Robson had worked for Colorado Springs as a mechanic for the city’s fleet.

Bob’s wife, Debbie Robson, said he had originally applied to follow his dad to the city as a machinist when he was first starting to work. He ended up working at Ampex for decades before he was hired by Colorado Springs Utilities in 2012.

Robson had a reputation for building anything: a 1940 Chevrolet coupe, the service awards Utilities gave extraordinary employees, jewelry made from antlers. He made a snow gauge for the city that was so precisely built that other machinists struggled to reverse-engineer how he made it. Debbie still wears a titanium ring that Bob made for her.

Robson had also been deployed as a captain on the Catamount Wildland Fire Team, which included responding to the Black Forest fire in 2013 and responses out of state. Myers had been the captain who oversaw the fire team before becoming Utilities’ water operations manager.

Robson’s wife and daughter remembered him as a man of faith and a family man. He cut the umbilical cords for Gabby’s twin daughters when they were born and was a loving grandfather.

“He was just selfless. He would do anything for anybody. If they just showed up at the house with something and said ‘This just isn’t working right,’ he would go out and walk to his machine shop and next thing, they would have something that works,” Debbie Robson said.

Even while he was in pain and between surgeries this year, Robson remained active. He had helped neighbors build a fence in July before and after a visit to the hospital. On the day before his final surgery, Myers remembered that he came into work and prayed for the best for his family.

Coleman Thimmes, a machinist who spoke on behalf of the machine shop staff, said they planned to build a sign in the machine shop to unofficially rename the building after Robson. Utilities CEO Travas Deal tacitly approved the measure during the board meeting on Wednesday.

“We all have individual stories of Bob outside of work doing something extraordinary for us,” Thimmes said. “He was a guy that you wanted to be around so much.”

A final celebration of Robson’s life will take place Nov. 7 at Rocky Mountain Calvary. The family asked for him to receive “one last car show” from friends who can bring a classic car.