John Franklin Strayer ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

   FamilySearch ID: KH21-J87.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Bronx, Bronx, NY. ⁹ The 1930 census recorded owning a $29,000 home: George D. Strayer, professor at Columbia University, 54, living with wife Cora, 59; sons George D. Strayer Jr., administrator in public school, 23; John F. Staryer, 21, Paul J. Strayer, 18; servant Hilda Jacobs, 35; and Hilda's child Roderick Jacobs, 10. The father was born in Pennsylvania, his father in West Virginia and mother in Delaware. Cora and her parents were born in Ohio. Their sons were born in New York. The Jacobs and their parents were born in British West Indies.

2. Census in 1940 in Delaware Township, Hamilton, IN. ¹⁰ The 1940 census recorded owning a $7000 home: John F. Strayer, salesman for oleo margarine, 31, living with wife Mary, 32. They were born in New York. In 1935 they were living in Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. They were both graduated from college.

3. Residence: 1020 Grand Concourse, New York, NY on 9 Nov 1967 in Alexandria, Alexandria, VA. ¹

4. Occupation: pilot on 2 Apr 1981 in Chapel Hill, Orange, NC. ⁴

5. Residence: 249 Seminole Dr, Chapel Hill, NC on 2 Apr 1981 in Chapel Hill, Orange, NC. ⁴

6. Obituary: New York Times: Obituary of John F. Strayer on 5 Apr 1981 in New York, New York, NY. ⁶ John F. Strayer, a skywriter and former operator of air taxis, died Thursday in Chapel Hill, N.C., following a short illness. Mr. Strayer, who had been a resident of Goldens Bridge, N.Y., was 73 years old.

He served with the Air Force in World War II and was with Grumman Aircraft as a test pilot.

He later began operating charter flights and air taxis in the New York metropolitan area. He had toured the country for the last decade in an antique open-cockpit plane as a skywriter for the Pepsi-Cola Company.

Mr. Strayer, who was born in New York City, was a graduate of William and Mary College and also attended Columbia University. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and two brothers, Joseph of Princeton, N.J., and George of Seattle.

John married Dorothy Mae Beecher, daughter of Edward Stambaugh Beecher and Pauline Florence Barnhill, on 9 Nov 1967 in Alexandria, Alexandria, VA.¹ (Dorothy Mae Beecher was born on 28 Mar 1927 in Spring Grove, York, PA,^{1 7 8 11 12} died on 23 Aug 2018 in Longstown, York, PA ⁷ and was buried on 1 Sep 2018 in York.: Mount Rose Cemetery, York, PA ⁷.)

John next married Mary. (Mary was born about 1908 in , , NY ¹⁰.)