Miami, FL, November 9, 2006--Robert J. Strudler, chairman of the board at Lennar Corp., one of the nation's largest home builders, has died. He was 64.
Strudler died Tuesday in Houston, the company said in a statement. A cause of death was not released, and a successor was not immediately named.
Strudler had been Lennar's chairman of the board since December 2004 after serving for four years as the Miami-based company's vice chairman and chief operating officer.
Before joining Lennar, he was chairman and co-chief executive officer of U.S. Homes Corp., which Lennar acquired in May 2000.
Among his numerous honors, Strudler had been nominated and inducted into the National Housing Hall of Fame.
He was born in 1942 in New York City, and had been a resident of Houston since 1979.
