JoAnn Ellender Strahan

JoAnn was born on 27 February 1933 to Lillie M. and George D. Ellender at Grand Lake, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. She married Miton Neal Strahan on 21 May 1951.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Neal in 2007; her half-brother, Melvin Granger, Jr. in 2002; her two children, Robin Tracy Strahan in 2002 and Roy Strahan in 2014; her granddaughters, Brenda Jo Strahan in 1985 and Tracy Jo Strahan in 2005.

She is survived by her daughter, Neila Jo Strahan from Nampa, Idaho; her sons, Robert Daniel Strahan from Mississippi and Roger Strahan from New York; her granddaughter, Terri Lyn Strahan from Texas; and a great-granddaughter, Tia Nelson from Louisiana.

A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM on Thursday, March 26, 2026 in the Johnson Funeral Home chapel in Lake Charles. Burial will follow in Prien Memorial Park. Visitation will begin on Thursday from 1:00 PM until the start of the service.