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Article: 2nd wife of Jim Thorpe, 101
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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FREEDA KIRKPATRICK THORPE
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Freeda Kirkpatrick Thorpe, the second wife of
Olympic and professional athlete Jim Thorpe, has died. She was 101.
Mrs. Thorpe divorced her famous husband in 1941 after 15 years of
marriage, but continued to field calls about their life together
into the late 1980s. They had four children together.
Jim Thorpe won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and
decathlon in 1912, but the medals were stripped from him after it
was determined he had played professional baseball.
The medals were reinstated by the ...