The Life of Milvi Na Dean

Milvi Na Dean, the last survivor of Titanic, died in a nursing home in England on May 3rd1at the age of 97. ?

You didn't know anything about the disaster when you sank?

Titanic 19 12 sank on April 15. Dean was born just over nine weeks ago. Dean's family was preparing to immigrate to Kansas, USA. His father wants to open a cigarette shop in America after emigrating. ?

Dean's family originally planned to go to America by another ship, but because of the strike, they took the Titanic instead. ?

Their family flew third class. When the ship hit an iceberg, Dean's father felt the hull shaking and quickly called his family to the deck. ?

Dean, his mother and brother were the first passengers to board the lifeboat. They finally survived with about 700 people. However, her father failed to get on the lifeboat and was killed along with other 1500 passengers and crew. ?

Dean became a hot topic on his way back to England by boat. People wonder how such a small baby survived the disaster. ?

Being too young, Dean knew nothing about what happened at that time. It was not until he was 8 years old that he learned the tragic scene from his mother. ?

Dean was unmarried all his life and spent most of his life in Southampton, England. She said the tragedy changed her life. If the ship hadn't sunk, she should have grown up in America. ?

Refuse to watch movies related to Titanic?

The shipwreck accompanied Dean's life. She never tires of telling stories related to the Titanic. ?

"I never feel bored. I like talking because everyone is surprised to see me, "Dean said in an interview with British media earlier. "It made me go to many places and meet different people. I won't be bored, I'm not that kind of person. " ?

Dean is against salvaging the sunken ship. In an interview with the Associated Press on 1997, she said that she thought people didn't want to see the wreckage coming out of the water, and it would be terrible to salvage it. ?

Dean and other survivors saw the Titanic movie An Unforgettable Night, which was shot on 1958. She said that the plot of the film was disturbing and she decided not to watch the film with the same theme. According to BBC reporter Paul Clifton, Dean refused to watch the blockbuster Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and kate winslet for the same reason. ?

1997 Dean crossed the Atlantic for the first time in his life and visited Kansas City. ?

Embarrassed in his later years, forced to auction souvenirs?

About three years ago, Dean was unable to take care of himself because of a hip injury, and he lived in a nursing home in Southampton. ?

According to the BBC, Dean had to auction some items related to Titanic in recent years because he had to pay for the nursing home. ?

The monthly salary of the dean in the nursing home is about $4,800. She auctioned off the suitcase donated to her mother by good people. Along with the suitcase, there are compensation letters sent to her by the Relief Foundation, letters from the National Disaster Relief Fund and a poster of Titanic. These old things brought Dean about $35,000. In April this year, Dean auctioned an old canvas bag and raised about $2,400. ?

In order to help Dean, her friend set up a foundation. Movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and kate winslet donated money to the foundation. ?

Because of his advanced age, Dean was in poor health and was hospitalized with pneumonia. ?

Two friends of Dean told BBC on May 3rd1that Dean died in a nursing home earlier that day.

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Milvi Na Dean's comment on the sinking of Titanic

Milvi's family lived in Southampton, the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The reason why the family boarded the Titanic was that her father Frank wanted to open a tobacco shop in Kansas and start their new life. After the ship hit an iceberg, Frank went out of the cabin for a little observation, immediately returned to the third class to let his wife dress the children and hurried to the deck.

This may be the last time my father saw them. From then on, Milvi Na, her mother Georgette Eva and her younger brother bertram were put into the lifeboat 10, becoming the first lucky steerage passengers to escape, but her father never came back.

19 12 An article in the Daily Mirror in May 12 wrote: "She became the darling of the Adriatic Sea, which caused fierce competition among female passengers on board, so that the staff had to stipulate that each passenger in first class and second class should not hold her for more than 10 minutes."

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