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RIP Edwina Troutt (1884 - 1984)
Oct. 18th, 2009 09:21 am[Error: unknown template video]
yeah, I actually met Edwina in about 1982, I would have been twelve. She put her foot prints in some wet cement in front of my Mom's house, and had me write her name, the current date, and "SS Titanic 1912". When that sidewalk was being removed, my Mom asked the workers to save that chunk of concrete. They managed to save most of it.
At the time I met her, she was in her 90's. She still drove a little red VW bug, lived in Mnahattan Beach, and kept in regular contact with a man who she carried into a lifeboat as a baby.
The main character in that (ahem) movie was based on her.
Celine Dione and Leonardo diCaprio can pretty much choke on that.
from ENCYCLOPEDIA TITANICA:
...As she waited for her boat to be lowered a Lebanese passenger, Charles Thomas, came past with his nephew. He begged for the child to be saved and Winnie took the child into the boat with her. As the boat was lowered she clutched a toothbrush, a prayer book and the 5 month old child.
Initially, she slept on a table on the Carpathia, but when she became hysterical, brought on by a storm the third day after the sinking, she was given a bed and some brandy. It would be several months before she would fully recover emotionally.
She later filed a claim against White Star Line for a marmalade machine valued at 8s 5d.
In 1916 she moved from Massachusetts to Southern California where she joined the Army Corps as an apricot picker. It was in California in 1918 that she married her first husband, Alfred Thorvald Peterson. They subsequently ran a bakery together in Beverley Hills until his death in 1944. Her second marriage was to a Mr James Corrigan. At 79, in 1964, she married for a third time to James Mackenzie. She lived out her retirement in Hermosa Beach, California.
On her 90th birthday in 1974 she received a letter from Richard Nixon, the then President of America. She last crossed the Atlantic in her 99th year after at least 10 previous crossings.
Winnie was a favourite at Titanic functions and conventions even until she was in her late 90's. She died on 3 December 1984 in Redondo Beach, California.
This is a kind of silly song, that became a campfire classic. My Mom used to sing it all the time. I kind of re-worked the music to be a little more upbeat and campy, and tried to enlist some help on the backup parts from Talky Tina.
yeah, I actually met Edwina in about 1982, I would have been twelve. She put her foot prints in some wet cement in front of my Mom's house, and had me write her name, the current date, and "SS Titanic 1912". When that sidewalk was being removed, my Mom asked the workers to save that chunk of concrete. They managed to save most of it.
At the time I met her, she was in her 90's. She still drove a little red VW bug, lived in Mnahattan Beach, and kept in regular contact with a man who she carried into a lifeboat as a baby.
The main character in that (ahem) movie was based on her.
Celine Dione and Leonardo diCaprio can pretty much choke on that.
from ENCYCLOPEDIA TITANICA:
...As she waited for her boat to be lowered a Lebanese passenger, Charles Thomas, came past with his nephew. He begged for the child to be saved and Winnie took the child into the boat with her. As the boat was lowered she clutched a toothbrush, a prayer book and the 5 month old child.
Initially, she slept on a table on the Carpathia, but when she became hysterical, brought on by a storm the third day after the sinking, she was given a bed and some brandy. It would be several months before she would fully recover emotionally.
She later filed a claim against White Star Line for a marmalade machine valued at 8s 5d.
In 1916 she moved from Massachusetts to Southern California where she joined the Army Corps as an apricot picker. It was in California in 1918 that she married her first husband, Alfred Thorvald Peterson. They subsequently ran a bakery together in Beverley Hills until his death in 1944. Her second marriage was to a Mr James Corrigan. At 79, in 1964, she married for a third time to James Mackenzie. She lived out her retirement in Hermosa Beach, California.
On her 90th birthday in 1974 she received a letter from Richard Nixon, the then President of America. She last crossed the Atlantic in her 99th year after at least 10 previous crossings.
Winnie was a favourite at Titanic functions and conventions even until she was in her late 90's. She died on 3 December 1984 in Redondo Beach, California.
This is a kind of silly song, that became a campfire classic. My Mom used to sing it all the time. I kind of re-worked the music to be a little more upbeat and campy, and tried to enlist some help on the backup parts from Talky Tina.