Olie B. “O.B.” McCoin, Jr. of Nashville, Tennessee and Miami, Florida passed peacefully on April 12, 2019. O.B. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 17, 1944. He relocated to Portland, Tennessee as a youth where he developed his passion, skill and loving hobby for farming. O.B. was married to Patti Greenberg, his partner, soulmate and love of his life.
After graduating from University of Tennessee with a degree in civil engineering, O.B.’s early career was at Lockheed. In addition to professional success with these endeavors, both at U.T. and in Altanta, O.B. developed deep friendships that continue to this day.
O.B. returned to Nashville in the early 1970s where he began his healthcare career, initially at the State and then in 1976 at Hospital Affiliates Development Corporation (HADC). While at the State, O.B. earned his master’s degree in public administration from Western Kentucky. His long and successful career leading HADC for 30+ years ultimately resulted in combining HADC into Windrose Medical Properties Trust, a denovo REIT of which O.B. was a founder, and ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange in 2002. O.B. remained with the REIT, and its successor REIT, until 2010. After that O.B. continued developing healthcare real estate for his own account, including Memory Lane Cottage, assisted living facilities for persons with dementia as a tribute to his mother.
Throughout adulthood in Nashville, O.B. enjoyed such meaningful friendships with people from all facets of his life. His warm embodiment and sincere sharing of his inner self is a remarkable tribute to the man he was and fostering of these relationships. He maintained his passion for farming, spending much time at Shana Farms, his farm in Portland. O.B. cherished all of his moments with each of his grandchildren. Cultivating within them strong values of love, perseverance, joy, courage and honesty, he loved them dearly. Other passions were evident in his love for the outdoors, beach, boating, fishing and the wonderful friendships developed in those warm spots including his home in Miami, Belize and other island tropics.
In addition to his wife Patti, O.B. is survived by children Shawn Douglas McCoin, Kimberly Ann Lauch and her husband Frank Lauch, and Kim Sircy McCoin; grandchildren Lila Ann, Chance, Waylon and Banks Lauch and Brady McCoin; sister Joan (Joe) Freeman and their children Cindy, Rita and Steve; mother in law Marcia Greenberg; brother in law Peter (Kim) Greenberg and their children Ashley, Brandon and Thomas; brother in law Steven (Barbara) Greenberg and their children Jordan and Max; and a number of “brothers from other mothers”. O.B. also leaves behind a vast array of other family and friends, having touched so many throughout the various periods of his life. O.B. is preceded in death by parents Lila and Olie B. McCoin, Sr., father in law Paul Greenberg and grandson Shepherd Lauch.
There will be a gathering of family and friends on Tuesday April 16th from six o’clock until eight o’clock pm, Wednesday April 17th from two o’clock until four o’clock and six o’clock until eight o’clock and Thursday April 18th from noon until service time at one o’clock pm in Woodlawn’s Dignity Hall. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made in O.B.’s memory to the Wounded Warrior Project, Hillsdale College or Trump 2020.
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