Robert Love McLaurin MD, JD.

peacefully on Sunday, May 17, 2015. Born January 5, 1922, in Dallas, Texas, he spent

the majority of his professional life in Cincinnati after attending Rice University, Harvard

Medical School, post graduate training in neurosurgery at Harvard and Yale, and service

in the US Army at Walter Reed Hospital during WWII. He married Kathleen Spellman in

1946 and started his family before moving to accept a position at the University of

Cincinnati College of Medicine, a position he maintained for much of his medical career.

He soon headed the Department of Neurosurgery, training many residents, authoring

numerous articles and editing several textbooks on Neurosciences and Neurosurgery a

career in which he helped establish the specialty of Pediatric Neurosurgery.

A great proponent of education throughout his life, he got great pleasure from

contributing generously to many research projects and educational pursuits, particularly

those of his children and grandchildren. And he continued to take on educational

projects of his own, attending Law School while still a practicing surgeon.

In 1982 he married Kathy Stevens Mendez and lived with her in Cincinnati until her

death in 1988.Upon passing the Ohio Bar exam, he became part of the firm of Rendigs,

Fry, Kiely & Dennis, concentrating on defending physicians, hospitals and medicalrelated

issues. In addition to education, his other passion was golf -- a pastime he

pursued at every opportunity and hoped (in vain) that his children might share.

(Fortunately the grandchildren took up the challenge)

In 1990, he married Sally Hall and expanded his family of then 5 children and 7

grandchildren. They travelled extensively as long as possible and hosted many a family

get-together as the number of grandchildren grew. After retiring from surgery and

eventually giving up his law practice, their vacation home in St. Simon’s Island became

more and more a seasonal home than a vacation spot. It has been a fond and

welcoming destination for friends and family on travels up and down the coast.

Remaining to cherish his memory are Sally McLaurin, his devoted wife of 26 years, his

children Kathleen Bailey (Bill Cavin), Anne McLaurin (Charles Meeker), Meg McLaurin

(Ralph McDonald), Robert McLaurin, Jr, (Paige) and Hugh McLaurin (Kate), Sally’s son,

Jeffrey Hall, 11 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren and Mittens and Bootsy.

A private memorial service will be held for family at a later date. In lieu of flowers,

remembrances can be made to the Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia, where

he enjoyed volunteering as long as his health permitted; or to Children’s Hospital in

Cincinnati to which he dedicated much of his career.