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To: lunarbicep
As of May 6, 2006 there are two living survivors

Barbara Joyce West
(born May 24, 1911) Barbara Joyce West was born in Bournemouth, Dorset, England and was 10 months and 22 days old when the Titanic sank. Her family boarded Titanic at Southampton as second-class passengers. Barbara, her mother and older sister Constance escaped on one of the lifeboats (possibly 10). Barbara's father, Edwy Arthur West, died in the sinking. Barbara West married in 1952 and currently lives in Truro, England

Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean
(born February 2, 1912) Eliza Gladys Millvina Dean was 2 months and 13 days old when the Titanic sank. She was the youngest of the 2,223 people aboard the liner. Millvina and her family boarded Titanic as third-class passengers at Southampton with the intention of emigrating to Wichita, Kansas. Millvina, her mother and older brother Bertram escaped the ship on lifeboat 10; her father died in the sinking. Millvina never married and now lives in Southampton, England. She is the youngest of the living survivors and the last survivor who attends Titanic-related events

2 posted on 05/07/2006 11:27:30 AM PDT by lunarbicep (Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain)
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To: lunarbicep
As of May 6, 2006 there are two living survivors: ... Barbara Joyce West ... (and) Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean ...

Both of those were infants at the time and have no memory of the event. What made Ms. Asplund unique was that she was a five-year-old child in 1912 and therefore she was the last survivor to have any memory of that night who could recall the actual events. The other two were but babies.

6 posted on 05/07/2006 11:55:09 AM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: lunarbicep

The Passenger manifest is almost complete.


15 posted on 05/07/2006 12:30:48 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
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