Dead or Alive: Jim Thorpe's wife. Answer ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- Freeda Kirkpatrick Thorpe, the second wife of Olympic and professional athlete Jim Thorpe, has died. She was 101.
She died Friday at Willow Springs Care.
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
International Olympic Committee in 1982. He also played professional football. He died in 1953.
Freeda Thorpe told the Yakima Herald-Republic in 1996 that she met Thorpe while she was working in Ohio for the manager of a baseball team Thorpe played for. Born in Edicott, Va., she had worked as a secretary. It was the second of three marriages for Jim Thorpe.
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.