 1920 - 2010
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| Born |
1920 |
Hartford, CT  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
29 Apr 2010 |
Newport Hospital, Newport, RI [1] |
| Buried |
Dunmore Cemetery, Scranton, PA [1] |
| Person ID |
I991 |
Rudolph |
| Last Modified |
13 Oct 2013 |
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| Histories |
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| Notes |
- Biography: My father was a Secret Service Agent during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations so his knowledge of the Interstate road system was amazing. His knowledge of geography was amazing, down to the minutest detail and he was our guide when we drove cross-country - twice - during the past few years. My son is a navy commander who has been deployed countless time - and, in his grandparents eyes, he could do no wrong. It was a good distraction for my father to be our navigator during the later years of his life.
Walter was born in Hartford CT (he would often tell people that he was a real Yankee, someone born in CT) in 1920 and lived in Chestnut Hill in Boston before moving for his growing up years at the ripe old age of four to Scranton where he met my mother - they met at Lake Ariel, PA (another place with which I am not familiar) in August of 1939 when she was 20 and he was 19. My father would always tease my mother that she had robbed the cradle. They didn't tell their parents that they had secretly married in 1942 - in his Navy uniform - and Frances made my father tell her mother, Alice Thorpe Bedford, because she needed my mother's salary at the time. Alice even exhorted the insurance man who collected 5 cents each week, door-to-door, for her life insurance policy to prevail upon my mother not to marry, but the deed was done.
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- [S276] Email discussion about the descendants of Joseph Thorpe and Frances Evans, Discussion by Elizabeth D'Attilio, Elizabeth Thorpe Hunsperger, Margie Thorpe Levers, (Beginning July 4, 2013).
A rich multi-month email discussion about the descendants of Joseph Thorpe and Frances Evans. A wealth of history and color.
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