She was a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Award for academic achievement and was an inductee in the Military Aviation Hall of Fame.

WASPs like Strother flew almost every type of plane used by Army Air Forces such as liaison, training, and cargo aircraft.

[8] In 1944, she and fellow WASP Dorothea Johnson Moorman were selected by Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets to learn to fly the Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber.

After four days of flight training, Tibbets certified Strother and Moorman for the B-29, some of the few women to fly the type for decades.

[13] In thirty-four hours of helicopter flight time, she set two world records for altitude (19,406 feet) and distance (straight line 404.36 miles).

[3] Following her retirement from Bell Helicopter as Chief of Human Factors Engineering and Cockpit Arrangement, she began serving as a member of the U.S. Army Science Board.

Strother helped build the reputation of the human factor engineering design group at Bell Helicopter/Textron over 28 years at the company.