Roger Bertrand Orensteen Obituary (1928 - 2024)

Roger Bertrand Orensteen, age 95 of Edina, passed away February 21, 2024. Roger was born in depression scarred Salt Lake City of immigrant parents and grew up in Chicago, and graduated from Nicholas Senn High School. He worked his way thru IIT in Chicago and graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, an M.S. in Business Administration, and a PHD in Business and Economics. Roger married Betty Ann and had six children. His career spanned decades as an international computer marketing executive with IBM, Honeywell, and Western Electric, with residences in Chicago, Dayton, Los Angeles, Stamford, and Edina. He was a dedicated educator on a graduate fellowship and as instructor at IIT, and as Associate Professor of Business at UCONN and SCSU. He was a member of the American Legion. Roger inherited his devotion to family growing up as a Chicago youth in an extended family whose members were mutually supportive for survival during the great depression. Roger was preceded in death by his parents, Samuel & Sadie Orensteen; brother, Myron; sister, Gloria Wechter. Survived by wife, Betty Ann; children, Steven, Bill and Michael, Lisa Greenberg, Linda DeCarlo, and Lori Hassan; 18 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Graveside service THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 at 12:30pm, FORT SNELLING NATIONAL CEMETERY, 7601 34TH Ave. S., Mpls, MN 55450; Assembly Lane #4, arrive by 12:20pm.