Obit of Thorpe, Roscoe Marion - Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Eddene Thompson 20 May 2007 Return to Pottawatomie County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pottawatomie/pottawatomie.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Sixkiller Cemetery--Afton OK Vinita (Ok) Daily Journal, June 23, 1972 Roscoe Thorpe Roscoe Marion Thorpe, 67, passed away at 10:15 a.m. Thursday in a Joplin, Mo hospital. He was born Aug. 10, 1904 in Bellemont, Indian Territory and had been an Afton area resident for the past 45 years. He was a member of the Sac-Fox Indian tribe and a half-brother to Jim Thorpe, the famous athlete. Thorpe retired two years ago from school bus driving. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Afton. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eva Thorpe, of the home in Afton; three sons, Marion Thorpe, of San Deigo, Calif; Jim Thorpe, of Newport, Ore., and Don Thorpe, of Joplin, Mo., and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Afton Assembly of God Church with Rev. Charles Talbert officiating. Interment will be in the Sixkiller Cemetery south of Afton under the direction of the Birks Funeral Home of Afton. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Pottawatomie County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pottawatomie/pottawatomie.htm