Miss Kate Herman

Left: Kate Herman with her family around 1900 (courtesy
of Judith Kunze, USA / Phillip Gowan, USA)
Right: In her twenties (Courtesy Phillip Gowan, USA)
Miss Kate ("Kitty") Herman, 24, from Castle Cary, Somerset was born on 6 December 1888. She was the daughter of Samuel Herman (butcher and hotelier) and Jane Herman (née Laver).
She boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger together with her twin sister Alice and her parents Jane and Samuel as well asthe adopted son and employee of her father's, George Sweet.
To reach their destination Bernardsville, New Jersey, where her mother had a brother, they bought ticket number 220845 for £65.
Kate Herman, her mother and sister survived the sinking. They were rescued by the Carpathia in lifeboat 9. After their rescue they went on to her uncle, Mr Laver, at Somerset Hill Country Club, New Jersey. They later moved to Bedminster, New Jersey
Kate later went to Portland, Oregon where she married and lived the rest of her life.
Kate Parsons (née Herman) died in Portland on 18 January, 1983. Her son Herman still lives in Vancouver, Washington, Norman Parsons in St. Helens, Oregon. Her daughter Hermoine Kinney died in Seattle on May 14, 1997 at the age of 82.
Articles
Unidentified Newspaper (Portland, Oregon) 19 January 1983, Obituary
Documents
Oregon
Health Division Center For Health Statistics Certificate Of Death
References
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer
At Port Of Arrival (Date: 18th-19th June 1912, Ship: Carpathia) - National
Archives, NWCTB 85 T715 Vol 4183
United States Senate (62nd Congress), Subcommittee Hearings of the Committee on
Commerce, Titanic Disaster, Washington 1912
Contributors
Steve Coombes, UK
Phillip Gowan, USA
Hermann Söldner, Germany
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Summary
Born: Sunday 4th December 1887
Age: 24 years
2nd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 220845 , £65
Destination: Bernardsville New Jersey United States
Rescued (boat 9)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Tuesday 18th January 1983
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Buried: Williamette Crematory Tigard Oregon United States
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mr Samuel Herman
Mrs Jane Herman
Miss Alice Herman
Mr George Frederick Sweet
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