 Birth | March 6, 1910 35 21 |
 Census | April 2, 1910 (Age 27 days) |
 Birth of a brother | Floyd Strahan 1913 (Age 2 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Myrtle Strahan 1914 (Age 3 years) |
| Death of a sister | Myrtle Strahan 1915 (Age 4 years) |
| Census | 1915 (Age 4 years) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 5 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Birth of a brother | Clyde Herman Strahan August 25, 1917 (Age 7 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 6 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 7 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Census | January 5, 1920 (Age 9 years) |
| Census | 1925 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Martha Parker April 14, 1927 (Age 17 years) |
| Death of a brother | Floyd Strahan August 20, 1928 (Age 18 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 19 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Birth of a son #1 | Robert Lee Strahan March 6, 1932 (Age 22 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | John Ambrose Troutman 1940 (Age 29 years) |
| Census | May 1, 1940 (Age 30 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Lurah Elisabeth Leonard June 6, 1943 (Age 33 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 31 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Census | April 21, 1950 (Age 40 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 39 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a father | Charles Edwin Strahan Sr September 16, 1956 (Age 46 years) |
| Death of a mother | Harriet Elizabeth “Hattie” Troutman February 4, 1966 (Age 55 years) |
| Death of a brother | Clyde Herman Strahan July 14, 1966 (Age 56 years) |
| Death of a wife | Martha May Barber July 1970 (Age 60 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 35 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | August 1982 (Age 72 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Farmington Cemetery |