Lieutenant Fred W. Seely was the ex-husband of Grace Thorpe who graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Antioch School of Law and went on to become a tribal district court judge.
In 1999, she received a Nuclear-Free Future Award for her opposition to storing toxic and radioactive waste on indigenous land.
She earned a paralegal degree from Antioch School of Law in 1974 and earned her bachelor’s degree in American Indian Law at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1980. She also worked as a part-time district court judge for the Five Tribes of Oklahoma.
Meet Lieutenant Fred W. Seely, Grace Thorpe’s husband
Lieutenant Fred W. Seely is known widely to be the ex-husband of Grace Thorpe. Though much is not known about him, he was born in 1918 and lived for 90 years before passing out in 2008. His ethnic race is not known but we believed he is white and holds an American nationality.
Seely and Grace first met in New Guinea when Grace was stationed there. In June 1946, the two got married, and shortly after they had two children a daughter and a son, Dagmar Thorpe and Paul Thorpe, both born in Japan.
The couple divorced in 1950, and Grace and her children left Japan and returned to the United States to live in Pearl River, New York, near her father’s home. In 1967, Grace moved to Arizona and began to focus on her activism.
Their son Paul was in his teens when he died in a car accident in the mid-1960s, and his mother Grace was so devastated and felt she needed a drastic change to overcome her depression that and chose to relocate to Arizona in 1967.
Dagmar Thorpe is the granddaughter of Olympic gold medalist, Jim Thorpe. She resides in Prague, Oklahoma, and she is a writer and advocates for American Indian affairs.
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