By Seattle Times Staff:
YAKIMA — Freeda Kirkpatrick Thorpe, the second wife of Olympic and professional athlete Jim Thorpe, died Friday at a Yakima care center. She was 101.
Thorpe divorced her famous husband in 1941 after 15 years of marriage, but continued to field calls about their life together even after moving to Yakima in the late 1980s. They had four children together.
Jim Thorpe is considered to be one of the greatest modern athletes for his track and field performance in the 1912 Olympic games and later successes in professional football and baseball. He died in 1953.
Freeda Thorpe told the Yakima Herald-Republic in 1996 she met Thorpe while she was working in Ohio for the manager of a baseball team for which Thorpe played. It was the second of three marriages for Jim Thorpe. Born in Endicott, W.Va., she had worked as a secretary.
Survivors include three sons, William Thorpe of Texas, and Jack Thorpe and Richard Thorpe, both of Oklahoma; a sister, Margaret Obenaur of Missouri; eight grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
At her request, no services will be held. The nursing home confirmed her death.
Seattle Times Staff
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Married: Jim Thorpe on October 23, 1925
Divorced: 1941
YAKIMA — Freeda Kirkpatrick Thorpe, the second wife of Olympic and professional athlete Jim Thorpe, died Friday at a Yakima care center. She was 101.
Thorpe divorced her famous husband in 1941 after 15 years of marriage, but continued to field calls about their life together even after moving to Yakima in the late 1980s. They had four children together.
Jim Thorpe is considered to be one of the greatest modern athletes for his track and field performance in the 1912 Olympic games and later successes in professional football and baseball. He died in 1953.
Freeda Thorpe told the Yakima Herald-Republic in 1996 she met Thorpe while she was working in Ohio for the manager of a baseball team for which Thorpe played. It was the second of three marriages for Jim Thorpe. Born in Endicott, W.Va., she had worked as a secretary.
Survivors include three sons, William Thorpe of Texas, and Jack Thorpe and Richard Thorpe, both of Oklahoma; a sister, Margaret Obenaur of Missouri; eight grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
At her request, no services will be held. The nursing home confirmed her death.
Seattle Times Staff
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Married: Jim Thorpe on October 23, 1925
Divorced: 1941
By Seattle Times Staff:
YAKIMA — Freeda Kirkpatrick Thorpe, the second wife of Olympic and professional athlete Jim Thorpe, died Friday at a Yakima care center. She was 101.
Thorpe divorced her famous husband in 1941 after 15 years of marriage, but continued to field calls about their life together even after moving to Yakima in the late 1980s. They had four children together.
Jim Thorpe is considered to be one of the greatest modern athletes for his track and field performance in the 1912 Olympic games and later successes in professional football and baseball. He died in 1953.
Freeda Thorpe told the Yakima Herald-Republic in 1996 she met Thorpe while she was working in Ohio for the manager of a baseball team for which Thorpe played. It was the second of three marriages for Jim Thorpe. Born in Endicott, W.Va., she had worked as a secretary.
Survivors include three sons, William Thorpe of Texas, and Jack Thorpe and Richard Thorpe, both of Oklahoma; a sister, Margaret Obenaur of Missouri; eight grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
At her request, no services will be held. The nursing home confirmed her death.
Seattle Times Staff
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Married: Jim Thorpe on October 23, 1925
Divorced: 1941
YAKIMA — Freeda Kirkpatrick Thorpe, the second wife of Olympic and professional athlete Jim Thorpe, died Friday at a Yakima care center. She was 101.
Thorpe divorced her famous husband in 1941 after 15 years of marriage, but continued to field calls about their life together even after moving to Yakima in the late 1980s. They had four children together.
Jim Thorpe is considered to be one of the greatest modern athletes for his track and field performance in the 1912 Olympic games and later successes in professional football and baseball. He died in 1953.
Freeda Thorpe told the Yakima Herald-Republic in 1996 she met Thorpe while she was working in Ohio for the manager of a baseball team for which Thorpe played. It was the second of three marriages for Jim Thorpe. Born in Endicott, W.Va., she had worked as a secretary.
Survivors include three sons, William Thorpe of Texas, and Jack Thorpe and Richard Thorpe, both of Oklahoma; a sister, Margaret Obenaur of Missouri; eight grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
At her request, no services will be held. The nursing home confirmed her death.
Seattle Times Staff
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Married: Jim Thorpe on October 23, 1925
Divorced: 1941
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