Mrs Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist Hirvonen

 

Mrs Alexander Hirvonen (Helga E. Lindqvist), 22, was born on January 2, 1890. She came from Dalsbruk (Taalintehdas), Kimito Island, in southwest Finland. Helga boarded the Titanic at Southampton. She was travelling to join her husband who,was a steel worker in Monessen, PA. She travelled with her daughter Hildur, brotherEino Lindqvist and August Abrahamsson.

In Southampton Helga wrote a card with picture of the Titanic to friends in Dalsbruk. There for a long time Helga was believed to be dead. Eino Lindqvist placed his sister and niece into a lifeboat, probably lifeboat 15.

Helga stepped off the Carpathia to be met by her husband. They settled in USA. From 1926 they lived in Syracuse, New York. Helga Hirvonen died 1961.

References
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0

Acknowledgements
Leif Snellman, Finland

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Summary
Born: Thursday 2nd January 1890
Age: 22 years
Married to Alexander Hirvonen.
Last Residence: in Taalintelidas Finland
3rd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 3101298 , £12 5s 9d
Destination: Monessen Pennsylvania United States
Rescued (boat 15)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Wednesday 17th May 1961

Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Miss Hildur Elisabeth Hirvonen

Travelling Companions
.htmlMr Abraham August Johannes Abrahamsson Friend
.htmlMr Eino William Lindqvist brother

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