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- NAME: Lillian Asplund
- BIRTH DATE: October 21, 1906
- DEATH DATE: c. 2006
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Worchester, Massachusetts
- Full Name: Lillian Gertrud Asplund
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Lillian Asplund was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic and the last living American survivor.
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Titanic survivor. Born Lillian Gertrud Asplund on October 21, 1906 in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1907, the Asplund family traveled to Sweden to settle their grandfather??s estate. Eager to return to the United States, where Lillian??s father worked at Spencer Wire Works, the family boarded the Titanic on April 10, 1912, for the voyage home.
After the crash, Lillian, her mother, and her brother Felix were rescued aboard lifeboat 15. Her father and three other brothers, including her twin Carl, perished in the sinking. The surviving members of Lillian??s family lived with her aunt and uncle. A community fundraiser was held in their honor, and they eventually moved to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
Lillian Asplund worked as a secretary and cared for her elderly mother, who lived to be 90. Neither Lillian nor her brother ever married or had children. She was the last American survivor and last living survivor who had actual memories of the disaster, but she declined to discuss it, as had her mother.
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View groupOn April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, carrying 2,207 passengers en route to New York. Unfortunately, the ship never made it to its final destination. After on colliding with an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, the ship sank in only a few hours.
From "the Unsinkable Molly Brown to the discovery of "the Unknown Child," explore some of the extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy—and view photos and videos—of those who boarded the Titanic.
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