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George Strait’s Wife Norma Always Leaves Him With a Smile! Meet His Spouse of More Than 50 Years
George Strait has been married to his wife, Norma Strait, since 1971. Inside the country icon's relationship with his spouse of more than five decades.
“Norma was the first girl I ever loved,” he once gushed, revealing the two “knew each other forever” after growing up in the small town of Pearsall, Texas, where they attended high school together, according to Wide Open Country. The teenager was killed when a car she was in crashed and rolled over in San Marcos, Texas in June 1986, according to the Jenifer Strait Memorial Foundation website. At the time Bubba and his wife, Tamara Strait, welcomed their first child in 2012, the legendary musician spoke about the milestone to People, gushing, “This year, my biggest blessing has been our first grandchild.”
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