Odd Øyen

Post-war life and career Øyen met his future wife while doing resistance work. At first they did not know each other's names, only noms de guerre. He was married to Dagny Udberg (1916–1991) from February 1951. He also served on an earthquake team in Turkey and in Jordan and Biafra. In 1991 he was among 28 war veterans who in a petition warned the government to not sign an international convention that abolished the death penalty in times of war. Other petitioners were Tore Gjelsvik, Oskar Hasselknippe, Jens Chr. Hauge, Håkon Kyllingmark, Bjørn Rørholt, Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer, Tor Skjønsberg, Anne-Sofie Strømnæs, Gunnar Sønsteby and Reidar Torp.

He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945, St. Olav's Medal With Oak Branch, Knight 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1962) and Knight 1st class of the Swedish Order of Vasa. He died in January 1997 in Bærum Municipality, and was buried in Stor-Elvdal Municipality.