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Apr 8, 2024 · Ruth Becker (Blanchard), a second-class passenger on the Titanic, how she escaped the sinking Titanic along with her mother and younger brother and sister, t...
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Aug 28, 2003 · Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Historical Society of Massachusetts and friend of Mrs. Blanchard's. Mrs. Blanchard, then 12-year-old Ruth Becker, was asleep when the luxury ocean liner struck an ...
Jan 2, 2024 · Ruth Becker Blanchard, a second-class passenger on the Titanic, tells of her experience of watching the Titanic sink from her lifeboat, unable to help those ...
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Jul 9, 1990 · July 9, 1990 12 AM PT. Ruth Becker Blanchard, 90, who survived the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912. The Titanic Historical Society listed her as one of the oldest remaining survivors of ...
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- Carpathia
- Schooling and Family
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Ruth Elizabeth Becker was born to missionaries Allen and his wife Nellie Becker on Saturday, October 28, 1899 in Guntur, India. She was the oldest of four siblings: a younger brother Luther, who passed away shortly before his second birthday, and two siblings who would join Ruth and their mother on the Titanic, Marion, and Richard. In the early mon...
On Wednesday, April 10, 1912, 12-year-old Ruth Becker boarded the Titanic with her mother and siblings at Southampton, England, using a second class ticket, number 230136, which had cost them £39. Throughout their stay on Titanic, they would reside in cabin number: F4. Ruth later remembered that her mother had misgivings about the voyage and that s...
After rowing throughout the night (to help maintain body temperature), Ruth and her lifeboat companions watched as the Carpathia arrived at dawn, 4:30 in the morning. The ship shot off rockets as it approached, and Ruth and her companions waved and screamed at the ship in an effort to be seen. When boarding the Carpathia, Ruth had to be tied into t...
Ruth attended a high school in Ohio, then later graduated from Wooster College. For a while, she taught high school in Kansas, then returned to Benton Harbor to teach grade school. Eventually, she married one of her former classmates, Daniel Blanchard. They had three children: Jeanne (1925-1993, later Lehman), Roger Allen (1931-1958) and Richard (1...
Ruth joined other survivors at a Titanic Historical Society convention, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1982. The convention was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the tragedy. She also attended two other conventions in 1987 and 1988. It wasn't until March, 1990 that Ruth returned to the sea for her first voyage since the Titanic. T...
Ruth Becker Blanchard passed away on July 6, 1990 due to malnutrition. She was 90 years old. She was cremated and on April 16, 1994, her ashes were scattered into the Atlantic Ocean, over the exact place where the Titanic sunk 82 years earlier.
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Titanic Survivor Ruth Becker (Blanchard) - Interview. Sinking of the RMS Titanic • RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at ...
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Ruth Elizabeth Becker was a Second Class passenger on the Titanic. She survived the sinking of this liner and became one of the last survivors to die. Ruth Elizabeth Becker was born in challenging circumstances. She was the daughter of American Lutheran missionaries Allen Oliver Becker and Nellie Baumgardner, the daughter of a photographer. They were Americans, with the father being originally ...
