After his sports career was over, Jim Thorpe lived most of the time from 1930 to the year of his death, 1953, in Hawthorne, a town in Southern California. At the time of his death he was living in a trailer park in Lomita, south of Hawthorne.
Jim Thorpe died March 28, 1953, in Lomita, CA, USA.
Lomita California
Lomita California
Jim Thorpe passed away of a heart attack on March 28, 2012.
Charles Thorpe died of pneumonia when he was only nine years old.
Thorpe Seely's mother was Grace Thorpe, daughter of Jim Thorpe and his first wife.
Jim thorpe wasn't a christian
He died at age 64
Jim Thorpe House was created in 1916.
Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1888.
Jim Thorpe Award was created in 1986.
Tom Ashenbrenner in "The Jim Thorpe Story" was one of his coaches early on. Jim Thorpe was an Olympic medalist.