Delaware County PA Archives Obituaries.....Arthur THORP, 1931

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THORP, Arthur 1931
 
                                 13 February 1931
                                     Friday
                                   Chester Times
                         "Local Architect Dies in Russia"
 
        Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE S. THORP, of 404 West State street, yesterday
        received a cablegram containing the sad news of the death of their oldest
        son, ARTHUR THORP, aged forty-three years, in Russia.
 
        His wife, MARY THORP is homeward bound it is expected she will
        arrive in about three weeks.
 
        The cablegram was brief but said he had died of a "brain operation."
 
        The deceased was an architect and had gone to Russia with a group
        of twenty-four employees of Albert Kahn Architects, of Detroit, Mich.,
        to do work for the Soviet Government.
 
        Mrs. Thorp had joined her husband; their ten-year-old son, remained
        in America.
 
 
                                  20 March 1931
                                     Friday
                                  Chester Times
                          "Brief Notes of Media Borough"
 
         Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE S. THORP have as guests, their daughter-in-law,
       Mrs. ARTHUR THORP, whose husband died suddenly in Russia, on
       February 11, and her son, ARTHUR GEORGE THORP.
 
         The late Mr. Thorp was in Russia instructing the native American
       architecture.
 
         A memorial service will be held at the Friends' Meeting House on West
       Third street, Media, at 2 o'clock, Saturday afternoon.
 
         Mr. Thorp's body was cremated and the ashes buried at Moscow, where
       an impressive service was held.
 




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