 Dr. Thomas Strain, Jr., graduate of C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport and Tulane 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.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 depression in the last decade of her life and died in Shreveport of a drug overdose at the age of forty-five.