[NukeNet] Grace Thorpe, Long-Term Anti-Nuclear Activist and ANA Member, Passes On

[MoJo]

Grace was an incredible, witty, wondeful person!  She came out to Ward

Valley several times in support of the cause and the tribes.  She did 

love to gamble!!!  She will be very much missed - what a warrior!

Molly

 

DAUGHTER OF OLYMPIC GREAT, OKLAHOMA NATIVE JIM THORPE DIES  Associated Press -- April 2, 2008    Claremore, OK -- Grace Thorpe, the daughter of Olympic great and   Oklahoma native Jim Thorpe who was a tribal judge and an anti-nuclear   activist in her own right, died early Tuesday, according to her family.    Grace Thorpe died about 2 a.m. Tuesday of heart failure at the Claremore   Veterans Center, her granddaughter, Tena Mallotte, said. Grace Thorpe   was 86.    Grace Thorpe was born Dec. 10, 1921, to James Francis Thorpe and Iva   Margaret Miller, in Yale. Besides being the daughter of a sports legend,   Grace Thorpe was a direct descendent of Sac and Fox chief Black Hawk and   was of Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and Menominee heritage, according to Park   Brothers Funeral Service, which is handling memorial arrangements.    Grace Thorpe also was a World War II veteran, having served as a WAC   (Women's Army Corps) corporal in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan.    She
 earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee at   Knoxville, and a paralegal degree from the Antioch School of Law in   Washington, D.C. Thorpe served as a tribal district court judge,   according to the funeral home.    Thorpe also was an Urban Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of   Technology and completed MBA course work at Northeastern State   University in Tahlequah.    Grace Thorpe served as a congressional liaison to the U.S. House of   Representatives American Indian Policy Review Commission and was a   personnel interviewer for Gen. Douglas MacArthur at his headquarters in   Tokyo during the occupation of Japan, according to information provided   by the funeral home.    She also was known as a champion of the environment, serving as director   for the National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans (NECONA).    Her published writings included "Our Homes are not Dumps: Creating   Nuclear Free Zones" and "My Father Jim Thorpe: World's
 Greatest Athlete."    Grace Thorpe is survived by a sister and three brothers. Her father, Jim   Thorpe, died in 1953 at age 65.    Funeral services for Grace Thorpe are pending under the direction of   Parks Brothers Funeral Service in Prague.  



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