A longtime employee of the Ohio State Athletic Department died of a heart attack in the university hockey rink parking lot at Friday night’s game. Robert L. McNabb, 62, who had worked as a ticket taker since 1978 and usher for the OSU Redcoats at university athletic events, was found hunched over the steering wheel of his car in the parking lot shortly after he left the hockey game early in the third period, said Bob Grubb, assistant Redcoat superintendent for the Athletic Ticket Office.McNabb was taken to the Ohio State University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. McNabb had complained of fatigue and shortness of breath during the game, so he asked to go home early, said Thomas Patton, manager of ticketing services.’We were concerned, but we didn’t think anything of it, other than it was an older man who was tired,’ Patton said.McNabb, also the founder of The Ohio Speakers Forum, and a retired Air Force captain, referred to himself as a ‘humorist speaker,’ and he frequently impersonated Woody Hayes while giving motivational talks to local businesses, said daughter Mary McNabb-Weyer.’Bob did a lot of entertaining in officers clubs while in the service, and did several stand-up comedy acts in the Armed Services Talent Shows,’ said his wife, Evonne McNabb. Originally from Iowa, NcNabb received his master’s degree from the University of Arizona, she said.’We moved around a lot with him being in the service,’ McNabb said. ‘We lived in England for four years, and in the Washington D.C. area for about seven years.’ After his retirement McNabb took a job as the director of training at the Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus. ‘He was a good worker,’ Grubb said. ‘He was always prompt, and you could always count on him to be there when you needed him.’McNabb is survived by his wife, their nine children and 12 grandchildren.Daughter Amy McNabb-Weyer and son Dan McNabb are both OSU graduates.’Dad was truly a joyous person, and always made people happy,’ McNabb-Weyer said. ‘He never had a bad thing to say about anybody.’