Last US survivor of Titanic sinking dies

That night in 1912, she lost her father and three brothers including a fraternal twin when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.

Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass.

Asplund's mother, Selma, and another brother, Felix, who was 3, also survived the Titanic sinking in the early morning of April 15, 1912.

At least two other survivors are living, but they were too young to remember what happened. Barbara Joyce West Dainton of Truro, England, was 10 months old and Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean of Southampton, England, was 2 months old.

Selma Asplund told her daughter it was not good to talk about the catastrophe, and she rarely did.