Titanic’s Last Living Survivor Selling Mementoes to Pay Her Nursing Home Fees

by Joey deVilla on October 16, 2008

Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the Titanic
Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the Titanic.

Millvina Dean, age 96, hopes to raise 3,000 pounds to help cover the costs of living in a nursing home. She’s doing this by selling her mementoes from the aftermath of the Titanic, which include a hundred-year-old suitcase full of clothes given to her family after they arrived in New York. Her family took the Titanic to emigrate from the U.K. to Kansas; her mother and brother also survived, but her father did not.

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1 susie October 16, 2008 at 5:42 pm

i don’t understand. shouldn’t she have kazillions of dollars from that movie about her life that steven spielberg made a few years ago and we all got subjected to ad infinitum? or did she throw her cash into the ocean, too?

just kidding.

2 David Janes October 16, 2008 at 8:05 pm

Did she get fired from a Tech Startup too?

3 adina October 17, 2008 at 11:13 am

that picture looks like her head is on a platter. it’s creepy.

4 Natasha October 24, 2008 at 10:51 pm

That’s a shame someone should help her out. i hope someone buy’s her stuff

5 amanda l October 29, 2008 at 4:21 am

wow to be the last living survivor of the rms titanic..thats amazing it must of been scary being on a sinking ship…….congradulations on being the last survivor xo =D….

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