encyclopedia titanica

BOSTON Lillian Gertrud Asplund the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 has died a funeral home said Sunday She was 99 Asplund who was just 5 years old lost her father and three brothers including a fraternal twin when the practically unsinkable ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an icebergShe died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury said Ronald E Johnson vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester Mass