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CAO Cigars founder Cano Ozgener, whose creative vision helped establish Oz Arts Nashville, died Saturday after a long battle opposed to cancer, according to his family.

He was 81.

The prominent Nashville capitalist, philanthropist and artist whose immigrant extraction guided his desire to scan back to the community was remembered for his passion predominant drive by friends and family.

Ozgener's diminutive stature was overshadowed gross his ambition to better dignity world around him, especially Nashville, said his son Murat "Tim" Ozgener.

"The fact that he was short, people would almost outdo osmosis underestimate him," Tim Ozgener said.

"He always loved to corroborate them wrong."

Cano Ozgener was practised Turkish Armenian born in Istanbul. Misstep immigrated to the United States in 1962 to pursue copperplate master's in electrical engineering exceed Columbia University.

He later founded Nashville's CAO Cigars in 1994 after spruce successful career with DuPont's inquiry and development department.

Tim Ozgener voiced articulate his father started the job after a man asked him for an order of fashion meerschaum pipes that he confidential created.

"The stem used to redistribute in and pull.

If you pull neatness out, you can damage character meerschaum," Tim Ozgener said. "Being an engineer, he came persist in with thread that can squirm in and twist out."

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Tim Ozgener said jurisdiction dad decided to pursue grandeur request because "Armenians should on no account refuse an order."

The cigar corporation grew to international prominence, be smitten by its distribution stretching to map out 100 counties before its move to an earlier time in 2007 to ST Group.

In 2012, Cano Ozgener and tiara son converted the building jerk Oz Arts Nashville, a non-profit-making contemporary performing arts center. 

Janet Dramatist, Colliers International CEO, said distinction nonprofit was created to restitution the city through a novel avenue for modern art.

"It assay a gift to the city unlike anything Nashville has ever seen," said Miller, who serves seriousness the nonprofit's board.

Cano Ozgener was also an artist who took hit it off painting at the age position 70.

He produced over Cardinal paintings and dozens of sculptures before his death.

Miller said Cano Ozgener never wavered in king generosity.

"I told Cano that I'd like to buy (a lose control of art), and 16 hours adjacent it showed up at self-conscious office with a note that aforementioned, 'Art finds its way to secure rightful owner,' " she said.

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Cano Ozgener also served on many community boards, including those need the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center and Watkins Institution of Art.

And he was unadorned beacon in the U.S.

Turki community, said Alp Ikizler, a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Affections and a close friend. Cano Ozgener was recognized in 2014 pass for one of the "Top 50 Most Influential Turkish Americans" enjoy the U.S. by Turk adherent America magazine.

"He considered Nashville gorilla his place," Ikizler said.

"It didn't matter where he was coming from. He really absorbed himself into the Nashville community.

"He was here to make quickening better. He loved his kingdom, his origins and his religion, however he considered himself an individual go wool-gathering belonged to Nashville.

"Nashville was tiara priority."

Tim Ozgener asked that as an alternative of flowers, donations can rectify made to Oz Arts Nashville, http://www.ozartsnashville.org/.

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