Personal Life
Cota married Constance Martha "Connie" Alexander, at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation (Madison Avenue and 35th Street) in New York City, on November 1, 1919.
She was a writer-teacher and distant cousin of Eleanore Butler Alexander, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. Both Cota and Roosevelt were also distantly related and interacted with one another during World War II.
Norman and Connie had two children, Ann (23 October 1920-31 August 1996, the first female born at the cadet hospital at West Point) and Norman Daniel "Dan" Cota, Jr. (15 December 1921-18 March 1988.
After the death of Connie in May 1969, he married Alice Weeks-McCutcheon, a widow, in October 1970.
Cota's son, U.S. Army Air Corps fighter pilot Lieutenant Colonel Norman Cota, Jr., provided reconnaissance for his father's division at Huertgen Forest.
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