In Memoriam
FrontLines - February 2009
Norman R. Ashton, 87, died Dec. 27 in Bethesda, Md. Ashton was a career Foreign Service Officer who joined USAID’s predecessor agency in 1956.
He served in Yugoslavia, Senegal, Cyprus, Turkey, and Afghanistan. According to the Washington Post, Ashton stayed behind on Cyprus while his family was evacuated to Beirut during the outbreak of war between the Turkish and Greek factions in 1963. In 1971, Ashton returned to Washington and worked in the Bureau for Asia and Near East as executive director of management. He retired from USAID in 1976, but remained active as a consultant
for the State Department. Earlier Ashton participated in the World War II invasion of Normandy landing on Omaha Beach. After his discharge from the military in 1945, he served as a civilian employee of the American Battle Monuments Commission, participating
in the establishment of the
military cemeteries of St. Laurent and St. James, now known as the Normandy and Brittany Cemeteries.
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