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  WALTER DONALD DOUGLAS
Miss Berthe Leroy, maid to Mahala Douglas, was offered this picture of her employer, who died in the sinking of the Titanic. She kept it with her until she passed away in 1972. She also treasured a book of poems by Mrs Douglas. One of the poems was a...
   
  FAMILY GRAVESTONE
For the love of the sacred heart pray for the soul of Alicia Ashcroft who died 27th March 1891 aged 69 years. also Austin Aloysius, grandson of the above lost in the Titanic 15th April 1912 aged 2...
   
Worcester Telegram (1983) FELIX R. ASPLUND [OBITUARY]
SHREWSBURY--Felix R. Asplund, 73, of 39 Fairlawn Circle died yesterday in his home. Mr. Asplund was a draftsman for Coppus Engineering in Worcester for 35 years, retiring in 1972. He leaves a sister, Lillian G. Asplund of Shrews...
2nd March 1983  
Washington Post (1974) THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le...
9th January 1974  
  MR WILLIAM TAGGART – DELIVERY CREW TRIMMER
Mr William Taggart was born in Belfast in 1889 and began work with the Harland & Wolff yard as an apprentice. He was one of the workers who helped to build Titanic from day one. He had also been a crewmember of the Olympic. When the Titanic was deli...
   
Unidentified Newspaper (1987) UNTITLED EXTRACT
Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ...
  1987  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) TELLS OF WOMEN PULLING AT OARS
Page 1 Youngstown Woman Relates Story of Escape from Sinking Titanic Men Tire and Passengers Row Boats to Safety From Disaster From reports received from the steamer Carpathia when it docked at New York ...
19th April 1912  
The Guardian (2007) OBITUARY OF BARBARA DAINTON
Barbara Dainton, who has died aged 96, was one of the last surviving passengers from the Titanic, though her family were brought up never to mention it. She was well into her 80s before she spoke in public about the tragedy. Barbara's pare...
14th November 2007  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) FOUR ON BIG LINER CLEVELAND BOUND
Page 1 Three Men and One Woman on Way to This City May Have Gone Down Many Parts of Ohio Represented in Lists of Victims When the news of the greatest sea distater ina century was flashed to Cleveland ye...
17th April 1912  
guardian.co.uk (2009) SINKING OF THE TITANIC: THE WATERY SOUND MEDITATION RETURNS
Gavin Bryars's piece of 'conceptual art' music has been performed in a swimming pool and water tower by child violinists and an experimental DJ. It now comes to the Roundhouse Comments (1)The Sinking of the Titanic, whose latest incarnat...
11th May 2009  
Syracuse Herald-Journal (1987) MARY WILBURN, OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES
pp. B1 and B4 Mary Davis Wilburn, 104, oldest known survivor of the Titanic disaster, died peacefully Wednesday at Community-General Hospital, leaving behind unpleasant memories of death and terror in the North Atlantic. She was one o...
30th July 1987  
Cleveland Plain Dealer (1912) JOY AND SADNESS COME WITH NEWS
Happiness or Gloom Seizes Ohio Relatives of Titanic Passengers Memorial Services to be Held for Youngstown Business Man Gladness mingled with grief yesterday when word came that two persons mourned by relatives in Clev...
20th April 1912  
 

 
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