The wife of the man piloting the OceanGate tourist submersible when it imploded is a descendant of a wealthy couple who died on the Titanic.
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday thatTry refreshing your browser, orIsidor and Ida Straus have become known for a Titanic story about reportedly choosing to go down together on the sinking ship, arm in arm. Survivors said Isidor Straus would not get on a lifeboat while women and children were still waiting to be rescued, and his wife of four decades declared she would not abandon her husband.
Flowers adorn the renovated Isidor and Ida Straus memorial plaque as Macy’s and the Straus Historical Society celebrate its rededication during a ceremony at the Macy’s Herald Square flagship store, Thursday, May 29, 2014, in New York. The plaque was first erected by employees of the store after the Titanic disaster claimed the their lives on Dec. 12, 1912. Wendy Rush.
The newspaper said Wendy Rush is descended from one of the Strauses’ daughters, Minnie. She married Dr. Richard Weil in 1905 and their son, Richard Weil Jr., Wendy Rush’s grandfather, was later president of Macy’s New York.archives. Ida Straus’ remains were not recovered.
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