In 1947, while attending the University of Michigan, Strack met and married Ruth Ann Mayer. They briefly lived in East Lansing, Michigan before moving to Ann Arbor to raise their five children. When he took the Arizona athletic director job, they moved to Tucson for his tenure and then to Prescott upon his retirement. They later returned to Tucson, where she died in 2011. Strack, aged 90, died in 2014. Sally (Scott) McElroy, Julie (David) DeWitt, Dave (Andrea) Strack, Lucy (Dave) Singer and Amy, (Vic) Casebolt), 14 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren