One of last two Titanic survivors dies
Barbara West Dainton, one of the last two survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, has died in England at the age of 96.
Dainton, who refused to discuss the sinking during her life, also asked that no announcement be made of her death until after her funeral, This Is Hampshire reported. She was buried earlier this week after a service at Truro Cathedral.
A native of Bournemouth in Dorset, Dainton was a baby when her family set off for New York on the Titanic, making its maiden voyage from Southhampton in 1912. Her father, Edwy West, was killed when the vessel sank after striking an iceberg.
Dainton, her mother, Ada, and her sister, Constance, were rescued. They returned to England.
During her life, Dainton said she "wanted nothing to do with the Titanic people," the Encyclopedia Titanica said.
The only known living survivor of the sinking is Milvina Dean, 95, who lives in Woodbourne near Southhampton. Lillian Asplund, the last survivor old enough to remember the sinking, died last year in the United States just before her 100th birthday. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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