Individual Details

Blaine Earle Thorpe

(2 Sep 1915 - 25 May 2000)

Events

Birth	2 Sep 1915	Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington
Residence	1920	Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho
Residence	1930	Council, Adams, Idaho
Residence	1 Apr 1940	Council, Adams, Idaho
Marriage	26 Dec 1946	Adams County, Idaho - Susan Vonhirt Keck
Residence	1978	Paradise, Butte, California
Residence	1993	Vacaville, Solano, California
Residence	1996 - 1997	Vacaville, Solano, California
Burial	2000	Paradise, Butte, California
Death	25 May 2000	Vacaville, Solano, California

Families

Spouse	Susan Vonhirt Keck (1915 - 1987)
Child	Jack Earle Thorpe

Father	Earle Blaine Thorpe (1889 - 1954)
Mother	Maude M. Gorby (1891 - 1963)
Sibling	Lois Merle Thorpe (1918 - 1996)

Notes

Death

Obituary of Blaine Earle Thorpe

Former Paradise resident Blaine Earle Thorpe, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946 as ship's cook 1C and receive the Asiatic Pacific Area Campaign Medal with two starts, the Amrican Area Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal, died last Thursday at Vacaville. He was 84.

Born in Walla Walla, Washington to Earl B. and Maude Thorpe, Mr. Thorpe was employed as a clerk at Safeway for 26 years. He loved fishing and hunting, and he had only moved from Paradise last year.

Mr. Thorpe is survivd by his son, Jack of Montrose, Colorado; two granchildren; and two nephews. He was predeceased by his wife, Susan, who died in 1987 in Paradise; and by his sister, Lois Hibbard.

Graveside services were held yesterday. Mr. Thorpe's final resting palce is next to his wife in Paradise Cemetery. Chapel of the Pines of Paradise is handling the arrangements.

Endnotes

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