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Strain's brother, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Jr. (1924-2015), was born in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], while their father was a student at the Baylor College of Medicine. The Strains moved to Shreveport in 1926. The brothers practiced pediatrics with their father and<ref name=tstrainjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-strain&pid=174845013&fhid=10218|title=Thomas Strain, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain (1928-2009), the wife of Thomas Strain, Jr. A native of Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]] who was reared in Springhill in northern Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=136601147|title=Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Thomas Strain, Jr., graduate of [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in Shreveport and [[Tulane University]] Medical School in [[New Orleans]], served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and the [[United States Air Force]] in the [[Korean War]].<ref name=tstrainjr/>

Strain's brother, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Jr. (1924-2015), was born in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], while their father was a student at the Baylor College of Medicine. The Strains moved to Shreveport in 1926. The brothers practiced pediatrics with their father and<ref name=tstrainjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-strain&pid=174845013&fhid=10218|title=Thomas Strain, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain (1928-2009), the wife of Thomas Strain, Jr. A native of Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]] who was reared in Springhill in northern Webster Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?pid=136601147|title=Dr. Dorothy Mack Strain|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Thomas Strain, Jr., graduate of [[Clifton Ellis Byrd]] High School in Shreveport and [[Tulane University]] Medical School in [[New Orleans]], served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and the [[United States Air Force]] in the [[Korean War]].<ref name=tstrainjr/>

Jimmy Strain's wife, the former Dorothy Jane Stahl (1925-1971), a native of Fort Wayne, [[Indiana]], was the mother of their son and three daughters. A registered nurse, she suffered from mood depression in the last decade of her life and died in Shreveport of a drug overdose at the age of forty-five.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468329|title=Dorothy Jane Stahl Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=December June 9, 2014}}</ref> Two-and-a-half years later, Dr. Strain himself took his own life in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]].<ref name=jstrainfindagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468323|title=Dr. James Robert Strain|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Strain and his wife are interred at Forest Park Cemetery West in Shreveport.<ref name=jstrainfindagrave/>

Jimmy Strain's wife, the former Dorothy Jane Stahl (1925-1971), a native of Fort Wayne, [[Indiana]], was the mother of their son and three daughters. A registered nurse, she suffered from mood depression in the last decade of her life and died in Shreveport of a drug overdose at the age of forty-five.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468329|title=Dorothy Jane Stahl Strain|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December June 9, 2014}}</ref> Two-and-a-half years later, Dr. Strain himself took his own life in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]].<ref name=jstrainfindagrave>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14468323|title=Dr. James Robert Strain|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> Dr. Strain and his wife are interred at Forest Park Cemetery West in Shreveport.<ref name=jstrainfindagrave/>

==Political life==

==Political life==