Millvina Dean had the distinction of being the youngest survivor of the Sinking of the Titanic. She also ended up being the last. She passed away the other day at age 97, on the anniversary of the date the ship was launched in Belfast.
She was thrust into the limelight in the last 10 years of her life, as she was the only remaining survivor who was willing to talk about the disaster. She would spend hours every day answering letters that poured in from people all over the world. I wrote to her several times in the late 1990's, and she always replied and several times even wrote me letters back.
This drawing was done from a photo taken a few years after the disaster. Millvina's father was lost in the sinking, and you can see the pain of his loss on the faces of his family.
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