Ann Straube; Survived Sinking of Titanic

Ann Straube, 92, who survived the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic. As a child she had moved from Scranton, Pa., with her parents to their homeland of Ireland. But as a teen-ager she boarded the Titanic with an aunt to return to the United States. The British steam liner struck an iceberg and went down in the Atlantic on the night of April 14, 1912, with a loss of 1,500 lives, including Mrs. Straube’s aunt. On Jan. 30 in Chicago.