Worldwide condolences pour out for last U.S. survivor of Titanic

Thursday, May 11, 2006

WORCESTER, Mass. -- Lillian Gertrud Asplund lived a quiet life. She held down a job at a life insurance company, never married and had no children. Her only known survivors were two distant cousins.

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