Norma and George’s Love Blooms
In 1972, when George and Norma Strait was still in Hawaii, they welcomed their first child, Jenifer Lynn Strait. And almost 10 years after, their son George “Bubba” Strait, Jr. was born.
While George and Norma Strait navigated through life with several bumps here and there, they were struck with the biggest tragedy of their lives in 1986. George and Norma Strait’s 13-year-old daughter, Jenifer Strait, was killed in a car accident after a teenage driver who was driving lost control and crashed near their home in San Marcos, Texas.
The incident caused George to greatly limit his contact with the media. He stopped doing interviews for many years after the accident, as his family and he did not wish to discuss Jenifer Strait’s death. Though in 1986, the family set up the “The Jenifer Strait Memorial Foundation”, a charity to preserve Jennifer’s memory. It donates money to children’s charities mostly in the San Antonio area.
According to the foundation’s website, per a mutual friend of George Strait, and confirmed by the Official Police Report these are the facts: