Only one Titantic survivor left alive in the world now

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Titanic survivor dies at 96

Thu Nov 8, 11:33 AM ET

LONDON - Barbara West Dainton, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died in England at age 96.

Dainton died Oct. 16 at a nursing home in Camborne, England, according to Peter Visick, a distant relative. Her funeral was held Monday at Truro Cathedral, Visick said Thursday.
Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean of Southampton, England, who was 2 months old at the time of the Titanic sinking, is now the disaster's only remaining survivor, according to the Titanic Historical Society.
The last American survivor, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, died in Massachusetts last year at age 99.
Dainton, born in Bournemouth in southern England in 1911, was too young to remember the night when the huge liner hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic in April 1912, killing 1,500 people, including her father, Edwy Arthur West.
He waved farewell as the lifeboat carrying Barbara; her mother, Ada; and her sister, Constance, was lowered into the ocean, according to Karen Kamuda of the Titanic Historical Society in Indian Orchard, Mass. His body was never identified.
The Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for all of 2,200 passengers and crew. Only a small number of those unable to find a place on the boats survived the freezing waters.
Dainton returned to England after the accident. She married in 1952.
She avoided publicity associated with the Titanic and even insisted that her funeral take place before any public announcement of her death, Kamuda said.
"We respected her privacy," Kamuda said. "We're so open with everything and our emotions nowadays, but people at that time, they just didn't talk about it."

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I don't know about you guys, but I was always so interested in the Titanic from National Geographic articles and books growing up. The movie was okay, but the history of it was fascinating to me. i know it sank in 1912, but it's amazing to think there's only one survivor of the Titanic alive today. it was such a romantic, life-changing and tragic journey for so many people. such hopes to end in such an amazing and terrible way. it still fascinates me. everything about it from the separation of classes, to the wasted life boats, to the fact people refused to believe it was actually sinking until it was too late, to the band playing as the ship sank.

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I was also fasctinated long before the popular movie. I had a thing for the big machines when I was a kid and one of my favorite models was a Large Scale Titanic that took me a long time to complete. And one of the things that was so emotional when I did see the film was the simple fact that this really happened to all those people that night. The people who did make it and those that did not.

I am also lucky to live near the Queen Mary in Long Beach and have been on that ship 5 times including two weddings, one reception, a Halloween Party, and an overnight after that blast in a Hotel Room on the ship. I know there are bigger ships now, but it is not the same as being on board a place of History.