Miss Lyyli Karoliina Silvén
Born: Monday 11th June 1894
Age: 17 years
Last Residence: in Tornio Finland
2nd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 250652 , £13
Destination: Minneapolis Minnesota United States
Rescued (boat 16)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Tuesday 5th February 1974
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Miss Lyyli Karoliina Silvén, 18, a single woman from from Tornio, Northern Finland, (near the Swedish border) was immigrating to Minneapolis, MN with the help of her Finnish-American friends (? her foster/adopted parents) Anna and Rev William Lahtinen.
They boarded the Titanic at Southampton as second class passengers, Lyyli sharing a cabin with Anna Siukkonen.
As the Titanic sank Lyyli saw the Lahtinens standing on the boat deck while the boats were launched, according to Lyyli, she entered the last boat (probably lifeboat 16), but her friends both died.
Upon her arrival in New York Lyyli and Anna Siukkonen were quartered in an Jewish "Welcome Home" on 225 East 13th St.
References
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN
91 518 3644 0
Acknowledgements
Juho Peltonen, Finland
Leif Snellman, Finland
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