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


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.

Joey deVilla

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  • 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.

  • 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....

  • Leo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet helped payoff her nursing home expenses after they heard about her economic troubles.

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