Posted on 06/22/2023 5:35:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Wendy Rush is descended from a New York couple who drowned on Titanic
Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive, who is on board the missing Titan submersible, is descended from a New York couple who drowned on Titanic. Ms Rush’s great-great-grandparents Isidor and Ida died when the ocean liner sank in 1912, according to New York Times report.
According to the archival records obtained by the media outlet, Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida were two of the wealthiest people aboard the Titanic for its first voyage. Ms Straus, born in 1845, was a co-owner of Macy’s department store.
The Straus are remembered for their moving display of love when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. A disaster that claimed more than 1,500 lives.
Ida Straus refuse a seat on a lifeboat when women and children were still waiting to flee the sinking liner. Ida refused to go without her husband.
Ms Rush got married to Stockton Rush in 1986. According to her LinkedIn page, she has participated in three OceanGate expeditions to the Titanic wreckage in the last two years. She is the company’s communications director and a longtime board member of the company’s charitable foundation.
According to New York Times, Ms Rush is descended from of one of the Strauses’ daughters, Minnie, who married Dr Richard Weil in 1905. Their son, Richard Weil Jr., later served as president of Macy’s New York, and his son, Dr Richard Weil III, is Ms Rush’s father, according to Joan Adler, the executive director of the Straus Historical Society.
Dumb article. The NY Post is getting worse and worse
New York Times...............
Saw this same dumb story in the NY Post. Must have come over a fax to another “newsroom(s)”.
Of All the stories about that it looked like most came from India..........................
Miranda Devine is great; I can do without the rest of The Post’s crap.
Pretty effective MO for a serial killer.
Isador & Ida Strauss Richard (1876-1917) & Minnie Straus Weil (1880-1940) Dr. Richard Weil (1916-1980) Richard Weil Jr. Dr. Richard Weil III Wendy Weil Rush
A ship sank.
Many people died.
There became a certain notoriety.
They wrote books, made movies.
That’s fine.
But if I have to hear about the descendants of the ship’s dead from a fawning media every time some rich asshole dies in some pursuit of the wreck...
...I’m gonna go postal.
Intergenerational wealth. Am surprised that it lasted that long.
Regards,
Some maggot liberal was on Newsmax last night “debating” gorka about Biden and evidence, and at one point the gorka brought up the whistle-blower and the maggot liberal said “and where is this whistle-blower? On the titanic sub?”
The smug look on the maggots face was despicable.
Yeah, I get all that. But have you heard of all the similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations?
Yes, The coincidences are very ironic...................
Any wealth will be gone with the lawsuits and lawyers.
Six degrees of separation...and 13,000 feet of water.
So ... not a lot of genealogy fans today ...
And 100+ years...................
Saw that. It was the odious Joe Conason, a confirmed scumbag from way back when.
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