Titanic survivor Barbara West Dainton dies by Lucia Mitrova

Dainton died October 16 in Camborne, England. She was 96 years old. The funeral was on Monday at Truro Cathedral. She was one of the two living survivors. She did not want any public attention during her life and she also wished her funeral to take place before the public announcement of her death. "We respected her privacy. We're so open with everything and our emotions nowadays, but people at that time, they just didn't talk about it," says Karen Kamuda of the Titanic Historical Society in Indian Orchard, Mass. Titanic sank on it's maiden voyage April 15 1912 and Barbara, one of 2, 208 ocean liner's passengers, was to young to remember the tragedy. She was born in Bournemouth, in southern England in 1911. Luckily she was also one of the 712 survivors. And not only she, but her mother Ada and her sister Constance survived the disaster too. However, her father Edwy Arthur West did not. Him and others 1516 people remain the victims of the disaster caused by struck of an iceberg and too low number of lifeboats. They never identified his body. After the accidents Barbara and her relatives returned to England, where she got married in 1956. She spent last years of her life at a nursing home in Camborne, where she died. This means, according to Titanic Historical Society, that Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean of Southampton, England is now the only one remaining Titanic survivor. Although, back then she was only two years old, so she don't remember Titanic calamity either.

by Lucia Mitrova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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