Obituary

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New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES * Mrs. JOHN J. BORIE of Philadelphia, died Wednesday while visiting her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Reyerson, at Boston, Mass. Mrs. Borrie was born in Perth Amboy seventy-nine years ago. *...	21st February 1913
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES ROBERT DOUGLAS SPEDDEN, son of Frederic O. and Mrs. Margaretta C. Stone Spedden of "Wee Wah Ladge," Tuxedo Park, N. Y., died yesterday at the family Summer home at Winter Harbor, Maine. ...	9th August 1915
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES Mrs. MARIE E. SPENCER died in Paris on Sunday, according to word received here yesterday. She was the widow of William Augustus Spencer, a well-known collector of rare editions. Her husband, who was an uncle of Lorillard Spencer, Jr., lost his life...	29th October 1913
New York Times	OBITUARY OF MRS. MARVIN'S SECOND HUSBAND: HORACE S. DECAMP Special to the New York Times --- UTICA, N. Y., July 16---Horace Silliman deCamp, realty executive in the Adirondacks, died yesterday in his home at Thendara at the age of 67. He owned the home on Second Lake that once was the property...	17th July 1954
	LETTER FROM THE DIOCESAN VICAR GENERAL TO WILLIAM BYLES Bishop's House My dear Mr. Byles, Last mail brought me the obituary card of your dear Rev. Brother; I have prayed for him, but to tell the truth, I am much more inclined to ask him to pray for me, to get through his inte...	28th August 1912
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES [LAURA VAN DER HOEF] Mrs. LAURA ELLEN NEWELL VAN DERHOEF, widow of Wyckoff Van Derhoef, who was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, died yesterday at her home, 15 Clark Street, Brooklyn. Her husband was Secretary of the Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company in Man...	18th March 1925
New York Times	OBITUARY OF ROBERT DOUGLAS SPEDDEN SPEDDEN---Suddenly, at Winter Haven, Me., on Aug. 8, Robert Douglas, only child of Frederic O. and Margaretta C. Funeral services on Wednesday at 11 A. M. at the residence of Mrs. J. D. Wood, 118 East 36th St. Interment privately.&n...	10th August 1915
New York Times	EDITH RUSSELL OBITUARY Edith Russell, Writer, 98, Dead; Fled Titanic with Lucky Toy Pig...	6th May 1975
Chicago Daily News	CHARLES WILLIAMS OBITUARY Williams—Charles Williams passed away Oct. 27, beloved husband of Lois Williams, fond father of Eugene, Ninian, John, Dorothy, Jean and Hilda. Funeral services Wed., Oct. 30th, at 2 pm, from residence, 5524 Lakewood av. Interment Rosehill ce...	29th October 1935
New York Times	OBITUARY: MRS. GEORGE BROOKE Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26---Mrs. George Brooke, wife of a retired steel executive, died of a heart attack tonight in her home, Almonbury House, Itahn. Mrs. Brooke was the former Lucille Polk of Baltimore. ...	27th October 1934
Salem Evening News	MRS. ELIZABETH LINES Mrs. Sargent H. Wellman of Wenham Road has the sympathy of the townspeople in the death of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth (Lindsey) Lines, 82, widow of Dr. Ernest H. Lines. Funeral services are being held today at 2:30 from the Grace Church in Sale...	19th December 1942
Southern Evening Echo	OBITUARY TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir...	30th December 1968
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES J. ALPHEUS VANSANT, a member of the firm of Sutton & Vansant, coffee dealers of Philadelphia, died Friday in Pasadena, Cal. His partner, Frederick Sutton, who lived in Haddonsfield,[sic; should be "Haddonfield"] N.J., was lost in the Titanic. Mr. V...	9th February 1913
Chicago Tribune	FRANCES A. KING, NéE STRAUBE - OBITUARY Frances A. King, née Straube, loving mother of Raymond R., Robert A. and Arthur W.; devoted daughter of Raymond and Ann Straube, née McGowan; fond sister of Jacqueline Komay and Mary Kapolnek. Funeral Monday, 9:30 a.m., from funeral home,...	27th March 1960
New York Times	OBITUARY OF MARGARETTA SPEDDEN SPEDDEN---Margaretta C., on Feb. 10, at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., beloved wife of the late Frederic O. Spedden and daughter of the late George F. Stone and Margaretta C. Corning and beloved sister of Emma D. Kemeys. Funeral services on Monday, ...	11th February 1950
Los Altos Nes	IMANITA SHELLY HALL CREMATION Arne Mjaland From the funeral home Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA I got the following details about Imanita Shelly Hall: Cremation date 5/26/54. Disposition: Chapel of peace. Birthplace Kentucky. Husband Jack S. Hall. The funeral home sent me a...	28th May 1954
Chicago Tribune	RAYMOND A. STRAUBE : OBITUARY Raymond A. Straube, beloved husband of Ann F., nee Mc Gowan; loving father of Jacqueline Komay, Mary A. Kapolnek, and the late France King; devoted grandfather of nine, including Raymond R., Robert A., and Arthur W. Kopp; great-grandfath...	4th July 1965
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t...	1912
	DEATH OF A CRESWELL SOLDIER According to an obituary in the Worksop Guardian Mr. Hardwick lived at 70 Duke Street, Creswell. He succumbed following an illness of two days at the Fulham Hospital, London. He had only been a soldier for eight weeks, having been in training ...
New York Times	OBITUARY NOTES FRED JOEL SWIFT, a well-known resident of the East New York section of Brooklyn, died in Nyack, N. Y., on Monday night. He was forty-five years old and a native of Herkimer County, N. Y. For a number of years Mr. Swift had been in the rea...	23rd October 1907
New York Times	[OBITUARY OF MARGARET ISMAY] DEATH LIST OF A DAY --- *** Mrs. T. H. Ismay --- LONDON, Apr...	10th April 1907
New York Times	OBITUARY: MRS. DOROTHY BRULATOR By Wireless to THE NEW TORK TIMES --- PARIS, Feb. 20---Mrs. Dorothy Brulator, an American who was residing here, was found dead in her hotel room today. Physicians reported that she had died of a congestion, having suffered recently fr...	21st February 1946
Southern Evening Echo	OBITUARY Last Titanic officer dies, 83 Last surviving officer of the Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic in 1912 has died at his home in Christchurch at the ago of 83. Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was the fourth officer, and the only officer on watch ...	27th April 1967
Evening Echo	GUS COHEN Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called him the Cat, because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on...	7th August 1978
Worcester Telegram	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
Worcester Telegram	MRS. SELMA ASPLUND [OBITUARY] Mrs. Selma A. (Johnson) Asplund, 90, of 39 Fairlawn Circle, Shrewsbury, died Wednesday night in St. Vincent Hospital, a few hours after being admitted. Born in Smaland, Sweden, she moved to Kansas City, Mo., 71 years ago, and to Worcester a ye...	17th April 1964
Falmouth Packet	FALMOUTH MAN DROWNED The name of Mr. H. Creece (sic), deck engineer, does not appear amongst the survivors and he has been given up as lost. The deepest sympathy is felt for the widow and her two children in their great sorrow. Obituary WAS born at ...	26th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN Mrs. Bertha Christensen Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. ...	29th December 1976
	OBITUARY WAS born on the 31st March, 1880, at Whitehaven, Cumberland. When quite young his parents moved to Blackburn, where he passed his apprenticeship days with the firm of James Davenport, of the Canal Works. From this firm he went to Messrs Howar...
New York Times	S. MARSHALL KEMPNER DEAD; LONGTIME INVESTMENT BANKER S. Marshall Kempner, an investment banker, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 88 years old. Mr. Kempner was a native of New York, where he began his career after graduating Phi Beta Kappa fro...	4th August 1987
The Times	OBITUARY: MARGARET ISMAY MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in Cad...	10th April 1907
The Times	HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill...	25th December 1895
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s...	1912
The Times	THE RT. REV. ALOYSIUS SMITH The Rt. Rev. Aloysius Smith was the eldest brother of Reginald George Smith, one of the saloon stewards on Titanic. This is his obituary- FIRST ABBOT OF BODMIN The Rt. Rev. Abbot Aloysius Smith, C.R.L., First Abbot of Bo...	23rd August 1960
Unidentified Newspaper	OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY] Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ...	1980
Chicago Tribune	SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ...	21st November 1966
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News	CHRISTOPHER HEAD A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...	April 1998
New York Times	NEWS ARTICLE AND MEMORIAL NOTICE Thomas H. Kelly, Treasurer of the fund for establishing a memorial of Dr. William O'Loughlin, who perished in the Titanic, announces that he has already received contributions amounting to $1,512 made up of two contributions of $500 each, one of $150...	12th May 1912
	ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t...
	ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY Arne Mjåland Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his life. In February this ye...	18th November 1972
The Guardian	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
The Times	OBITUARY---MR. C. BOWER ISMAY Mr. Charles Bower Ismay, of Hazelbeech Hall, Northampton, who had been ill for some weeks, died yesterday morning. He was well known on the Turf, and was the owner of Craganour, which ran in the famous Derby of 1913. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay was...	26th May 1924
Irish Independent	BABY OF THE TITANIC Millvina was a beautiful person and anybody who met her thought so. It wasn't being the baby of the Titanic which made her special, it was Millvina...	7th June 2009
The Times	WOLFF, GUSTAV W. OBITUARY --- MR. G. W. WOLFF --- Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, for long a partner in Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, died yesterday at his residence in Park-street, W. He underwent an operation on Tuesday. ...	18th April 1913
The Times	OBITUARY : THE REV E.C. & MRS CARTER ...	20th April 1912
The Times	ALEXANDER CARLISLE OBITUARY ALEXANDER CARLISLE The Right Hon Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, who died yesterday in London at the age of 71, was a ...	6th March 1926