When Aline Aleen Sawhill was born on 16 July 1899, in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States, her father, Joseph Todd Sawhill, was 48 and her mother, Alice Ann McCarty, was 32. She married Louis Strutz on 12 April 1920, in Anchorage, Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Judicial District 3 Anchorage, Alaska Territory, United States in 1930 and Anchorage Recording District - No. 31, Judicial District 3 Anchorage, Alaska Territory, United States in 1940. She died on 12 November 1995, at the age of 96, and was buried in Anchorage, Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, United States.