Deceased Poet: Robert Larry Strickland - 1956
Date Of Birth: June-11-1938
Date Deceased: March-29-1959
Age at Death: 20
Cause of Death: car accident
Poet City: Montgomery
Poet State: AL
Poet Country: USA
Was a Veteran: No
Survived By: His parents, one sister, and one brother Jim Strickland.

Robert Larry Strickland was born in Dothan, Alabama on 11 June 1938 to Henry D. Strickland and his wife, Robbie Spooner Strickland. He graduated in the class of 1956 from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was voted "Best Looking" and well loved. He attended Howard College (now Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama) as a ministerial student. In his junior year at college, he was killed in an automobile accident on his way back to Howard on the Birmingham Highway outside Clanton, Alabama. The car left the highway and was driven by his brother, Jim, who survived the accident on a rainy highway. Larry also had one sister. His funeral was held in the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama and he was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery. These facts can be verified through Ancestry.com US Social Security Records and the records of "Find A Grave" with pictures of his tombstone.

Information from Elizabeth Vaughan Arnold.