Notes:

1920 Census, Ohio, Vol. 123, E.D. 191, Sheet 11, Line 75, 220 Oak Land Square, Bellefontaine, Logan County, has Herschel living with parents, age 17.


- OBITUARY - Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, dtg August 1959

Herschel Robert Strayer, 56, 721 south Main Street, died at 1025 p.m. Saturday in Mary Rutan Hospital. Hospitalized on several occasions, he had last been a patient at Mary Rutan hospital Dec. 12.
He was an engine dispatcher for the New York Central System for 37 years. Born July 28, 1902, in West Liberty, a son of John Edward and Laura Sower Strayer, he was graduated from Bellefontaine high school in 1921. In 1939 he married tol

The deceased became ill about five years ago when he experienced such tired feeling that a local physician advised a series of blood tests be taken for confirmation and diagnostic reasons. He entered University hospital, Columbus, whedt
rles Doane, confirmed that Mr. Strayer was ill of a disease of the bone marrow which is unable to manufacture red blood cells. While at the hospital in Columbus, four blood transfusions were administered and his health then improved.
In the earlier stages of the disease only a pint of blood was needed every three or four weeks but it progressed so rapidly that he received 71 pints in 1957 and many more than 100 pints in 1958. He had a rare type of blood, A-Negatit co-operative in having this type of blood available at regular intervals via the Red Cross blood program.
Surviving with his wife are a son, John Robert, of Pensacola, Fla., and three brothers, Floyd Strayer, Urbana; Willis Strayer, Dayton and Ray P. Strayer, R.F.D. 4, Bellefontaine.
The deceased was a member of the First Lutheran Church and of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Eichholtz funeral home in charge of Rev. Olen A. Peters. Burial will be made in West Liberty Fairview cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home.------

Herschel married Agnes Helene Angle in Aug 1930 in Degraff, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Pegi Channell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]