Iva Thorpe from Headland, Ala., was looking for a recipe for a sweet potato cake or bread that had crushed pineapple and nuts in it. I did not receive any responses from readers to Thorpe's query ...

Iva Thorpe from Headland, Ala., was looking for a recipe for a sweet potato cake or bread that had crushed pineapple and nuts in it. I did not receive any responses from readers to Thorpe’s ...

Iva Thorpe from Headland, Ala., was looking for a recipe for a sweet potato cake or bread that had crushed pineapple and nuts in it. I did not receive any responses from readers to Thorpe’s q… ...

Iva Thorpe from Headland, Ala., was looking for a recipe for a sweet potato cake or bread that had crushed pineapple and nuts in it. I did not receive any responses from readers to Thorpe's query ...

Jim and Iva Thorpe divorced and, when Grace was a teen-ager, her mother remarried and moved Grace and her two sisters to Chicago. Iva and Jim also had a son, James Francis Jr., who died from polio.