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Barbara W. Dainton

Titanic survivor, 96 Barbara West Dainton, 96, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Oct. 16 at a nursing home in Camborne, England. Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean of Southampton, England, who was 2 months old at the time of the Titanic sinking, is now the disaster's only remaining survivor, according to the Titanic Historical Society. Mrs. Dainton, born in Bournemouth in southern England in 1911, was too young to remember the night when the huge liner hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic in April 1912, killing 1,500 people, including her father, Edwy Arthur West. He waved farewell as the lifeboat carrying Barbara, her mother and sister was lowered into the ocean, according to the Titanic Historical Society in Massachusetts. His body was never identified. Mrs. Dainton returned to England after the disaster and married in 1952. She avoided publicity associated with the Titanic. - AP

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Titanic survivor, 96

Barbara West Dainton, 96, believed to be one of the last two survivors from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Oct. 16 at a nursing home in Camborne, England.

Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean of Southampton, England, who was 2 months old at the time of the Titanic sinking, is now the disaster's only remaining survivor, according to the Titanic Historical Society.

Mrs. Dainton, born in Bournemouth in southern England in 1911, was too young to remember the night when the huge liner hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic in April 1912, killing 1,500 people, including her father, Edwy Arthur West. He waved farewell as the lifeboat carrying Barbara, her mother and sister was lowered into the ocean, according to the Titanic Historical Society in Massachusetts. His body was never identified.

Mrs. Dainton returned to England after the disaster and married in 1952. She avoided publicity associated with the Titanic.

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