From the Washington Post, Sunday, January 11, 2009
Norman R. Ashton USAID Official
Norman R. Ashton, 87, a U.S. Agency for International Development official who retired in 1976 as executive director of management for the Near East and South Asia, died Dec. 27 at his home in Bethesda. He had Parkinson's disease and kidney failure.
After Mr. Ashton's Army service in Europe during World War II, he held several postwar military government jobs in Germany.
He joined USAID in 1956, and his assignments took him to Europe, Africa and Asia. He became fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. While executive officer of the USAID mission to Cyprus in 1963, he stayed behind while his family was evacuated to Beirut during the outbreak of war between the Turkish and Greek factions on the island.
In retirement, he became a State Department consultant.
Norman Richard Ashton was born in Downingtown, Pa., and raised by friends of his family. Before Norman's birth, his father died from exposure to chlorine gas after serving in the Army in Europe during World War I. His mother, a schoolteacher, could not raise him alone.
Mr. Ashton served in the Army Transportation Corps during World War II and participated in the World War II invasion of Normandy as well as the truck caravan known as the Red Ball Express that kept the military supplied with gasoline and other staples.
He attended the University of Maryland's extension campus in Germany in the early 1950s.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Janine Bayard Ashton of Bethesda; two daughters, Diana Hobson of Woodbridge and Corinne F. Connor of Montclair, N.J.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.
-- Adam Bernstein
Norman R. Ashton USAID Official
Norman R. Ashton, 87, a U.S. Agency for International Development official who retired in 1976 as executive director of management for the Near East and South Asia, died Dec. 27 at his home in Bethesda. He had Parkinson's disease and kidney failure.
After Mr. Ashton's Army service in Europe during World War II, he held several postwar military government jobs in Germany.
He joined USAID in 1956, and his assignments took him to Europe, Africa and Asia. He became fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. While executive officer of the USAID mission to Cyprus in 1963, he stayed behind while his family was evacuated to Beirut during the outbreak of war between the Turkish and Greek factions on the island.
In retirement, he became a State Department consultant.
Norman Richard Ashton was born in Downingtown, Pa., and raised by friends of his family. Before Norman's birth, his father died from exposure to chlorine gas after serving in the Army in Europe during World War I. His mother, a schoolteacher, could not raise him alone.
Mr. Ashton served in the Army Transportation Corps during World War II and participated in the World War II invasion of Normandy as well as the truck caravan known as the Red Ball Express that kept the military supplied with gasoline and other staples.
He attended the University of Maryland's extension campus in Germany in the early 1950s.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Janine Bayard Ashton of Bethesda; two daughters, Diana Hobson of Woodbridge and Corinne F. Connor of Montclair, N.J.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.
-- Adam Bernstein
From the Washington Post, Sunday, January 11, 2009
Norman R. Ashton USAID Official
Norman R. Ashton, 87, a U.S. Agency for International Development official who retired in 1976 as executive director of management for the Near East and South Asia, died Dec. 27 at his home in Bethesda. He had Parkinson's disease and kidney failure.
After Mr. Ashton's Army service in Europe during World War II, he held several postwar military government jobs in Germany.
He joined USAID in 1956, and his assignments took him to Europe, Africa and Asia. He became fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. While executive officer of the USAID mission to Cyprus in 1963, he stayed behind while his family was evacuated to Beirut during the outbreak of war between the Turkish and Greek factions on the island.
In retirement, he became a State Department consultant.
Norman Richard Ashton was born in Downingtown, Pa., and raised by friends of his family. Before Norman's birth, his father died from exposure to chlorine gas after serving in the Army in Europe during World War I. His mother, a schoolteacher, could not raise him alone.
Mr. Ashton served in the Army Transportation Corps during World War II and participated in the World War II invasion of Normandy as well as the truck caravan known as the Red Ball Express that kept the military supplied with gasoline and other staples.
He attended the University of Maryland's extension campus in Germany in the early 1950s.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Janine Bayard Ashton of Bethesda; two daughters, Diana Hobson of Woodbridge and Corinne F. Connor of Montclair, N.J.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.
-- Adam Bernstein
Norman R. Ashton USAID Official
Norman R. Ashton, 87, a U.S. Agency for International Development official who retired in 1976 as executive director of management for the Near East and South Asia, died Dec. 27 at his home in Bethesda. He had Parkinson's disease and kidney failure.
After Mr. Ashton's Army service in Europe during World War II, he held several postwar military government jobs in Germany.
He joined USAID in 1956, and his assignments took him to Europe, Africa and Asia. He became fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. While executive officer of the USAID mission to Cyprus in 1963, he stayed behind while his family was evacuated to Beirut during the outbreak of war between the Turkish and Greek factions on the island.
In retirement, he became a State Department consultant.
Norman Richard Ashton was born in Downingtown, Pa., and raised by friends of his family. Before Norman's birth, his father died from exposure to chlorine gas after serving in the Army in Europe during World War I. His mother, a schoolteacher, could not raise him alone.
Mr. Ashton served in the Army Transportation Corps during World War II and participated in the World War II invasion of Normandy as well as the truck caravan known as the Red Ball Express that kept the military supplied with gasoline and other staples.
He attended the University of Maryland's extension campus in Germany in the early 1950s.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Janine Bayard Ashton of Bethesda; two daughters, Diana Hobson of Woodbridge and Corinne F. Connor of Montclair, N.J.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.
-- Adam Bernstein
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