Maner Lawton Thorpe (1930 - 2012)

Born 2 May 1930 in Los Angeles, California, United States

Ancestors

Died 19 Feb 2012 at age 81 in Santa Barbara, California, United States

Biography

Maner was born in 1930, the second child of Spencer R. Thorpe and Lawton Hite Thorpe. His wife is Michi Matsushita, second child of Sotojiro and Chiyo Matsushita of Tokyo. He passed away in 2012.

Maner Lawton Thorpe was born in Los Angeles on May 2, 1930. On Oct. 9, 1953 at the American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan Maner married Michi Matsushita, who was born in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 1928. They lived in Berkeley, California; Arlington, Massachusetts; Tokyo; Lexington, Massachusetts; and Leonia, New Jersey until 1966, when they moved to their current address in Santa Barbara. They had one son and one daughter and live at 181 Santo Tomas Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2525.

Sources

See also:

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K96G-2CN : 13 March 2018), Spencer R Thorpe, Santa Paula Judicial Township, Ventura, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 56-37, sheet 19A, line 15, family 401, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 364.

• Obiturary for Maner Thorpe

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179179883/maner-lawton-thorpe

• His own research.