R.I.P. Millvina Dean, Titanic Survivor

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  06.01.09 | 12:22 PM ET

REUTERS/Simon Kreitem

The last survivor of the Titanic’s sinking has died at 97. Dean was just two months old when she was placed in one of the ship’s lifeboats with her mother and brother; she once said of her celebrity status: “Until the wreckage of the Titanic was found in 1985, nobody was interested in me. Who expects to become famous at that age?”

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Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


3 Comments for R.I.P. Millvina Dean, Titanic Survivor

Oceanside Lodging 06.01.09 | 1:11 PM ET

God bless her.
Now I really do feel empty, I have been obsessed with Titanic for 2 and a half years now ever since I was old enough to watch the film, and to think that now the last survivor is gone is just so….sad. I know that everyone dies in the end but still, I want to cry now.
And Kate & Leo & James Cameron put their money towards her nursing home funds
At least she is in heaven now with the other passengers, all together, that’s what I think

Anyway thanks for letting us know

Linda Geldenhuys 06.01.09 | 9:48 PM ET

May she rest in peace.  Such a pity how fast the world forget. I hope that here memories will live onwards.

Skye 06.02.09 | 4:48 AM ET

R.I.P Millvina. It’s so sad that she has just gone, she was part of history & part of my heart. But may she be reunited with her father, family & all the the other people on the Titanic after all these sad years.

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