* Bertha Marshall; Survivor of the Sinking of Titanic
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Bertha Marshall, 93, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. She and her mother were on their way to Oregon from Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1912 when the luxury liner hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic. In a 1985 interview, she said she remembered being awakened by her mother and told to say her prayers. She said her most poignant memory of the sinking was that none of the lifeboats were fully loaded. In Vancouver, Canada, on March 4.
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