Personal
Ole Singstad married Else Johansen (June 28, 1890 – July 8, 1964). Together they had two children, Rita (2 May 1918 – 3 May 1975) and Paul (25 Apr 1925 – 27 Mar 1976). Singstad died on December 8, 1969; at the time he lived on Fifth Avenue in New York City. He is buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Singstad returned to Norway five times in his life: first for his mother's 80th birthday in 1923 and subsequently to Lensvik in 1930 as well as 1933 while working on the tunnel at the river Schelde. He missed his mother's 100th birthday in 1943 because of the war, then returned in 1953 and again a final time in 1967 at age 85, still active in his consulting firm.
He was an avid fisherman.
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