Mr Servando Jose Florentino Ovies y Rodriguez
- Biography
| Name: Mr Servando Jose Florentino Ovies y Rodriguez
Born: Monday 21st February 1876 Age: 36 years Last Residence: in Havana Cuba Occupation: Merchant 1st Class passenger First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 17562 , £27 14s 5d Cabin No.: D43 Died in the sinking. Body recovered by: Mackay-Bennett (No. 189) Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia Canada on Wednesday 15th May 1912. |
© Bill Fowler, Canada.
Mr Servando Jose Florentino Ovies y Rodriguez, 36, was born on 21 February 1876 in Aviles, Northern Spain, the son of Ramon Ovies and Maria del Carmen Rodriguez.
He worked for the family firm of Rodriguez & Co. who were in the import business and based in Havana. In 1912 he was living in Havana with his wife Eva Lopez del Vallardo and son, Ramon Servando. Eva filed a claim for $75,000 for the loss of his life and $2800 for the loss of property.
He boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a first class passenger (ticket number PC 17562, £27 14s 5d). He occuppied cabin D-43.
Ovies died in the sinking, his body was later recovered by the MacKay Bennett (#189):
| NO. 189. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 28. - HAIR, DARK. CLOTHING - Black coat and vest; blue serge pants; grey shirt, marked "J. R." NO MARKS. PROBABLY A SAILOR. |
The body was eventually identified by J. A. Rodriguez of Rodriguez & Co., Havana. It was initially buried at Fairview Cemetery in Halifax on 3 May but was exhumed and reburied in the Catholic Mount Olivet Cemetery on 15 May 1912.
References and Sources
Record of Bodies and Effects: Passengers and Crew, S.S. Titanic (Public
Archives of Nova Scotia)
(#189)
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York;
NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279])
Credits
Hermann Söldner, Germany
Craig Stringer, UK
Geoff Whitfield, UK
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