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Lauris Norstad

Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Military

[1] Death from cardiac arrest, Tucson Medical Center, Tucson, AZ.

Father: Martin Norstad (Lutheran minister)
Mother: Marie Johnson
Brother: Frederic Norstad
Sister: Marie Ernster
Wife: Isabelle Helen Jenkins (m. 1935, until his death, one daughter)
Daughter: Kristin Jaffe

University: US Military Academy, West Point (1930)

Owens Corning CEO (1967-72)
Owens Corning President (1963-72)
Owens Corning COO (1963-67)
US Defense Department Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1956-63)
US Defense Department Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1953-56)
US Defense Department Commander-in-Chief, US Air Forces Europe (1950-53)
US Defense Department Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Air Force (1947-50)
US War Department Director of Plans and Operations Division (1947)
US War Department Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Plans, Army Air Force (1945-47)
US War Department Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Army Airforce HQ (1944-45)
Member of the Board of Abitibi Paper Company
Member of the Board of Conoco
Member of the Board of Owens Corning
RAND Corporation Board of Directors
Air Medal
French Legion of Honor
Legion of Merit
Silver Star
Norwegian Ancestry Paternal

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