Word: gertrude
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DIED. Lillian Gertrud Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the Titanic and the only one in the world old enough to recall the wreck; in Shrewsbury, Mass. The intensely private Asplund was 5 when the ship sank in the North Atlantic. She spoke publicly about the ordeal only once, saying she was forever haunted by the memory of her father and three of her brothers, who died, standing at the ship's railings as she, another brother and their mother were taken away in a lifeboat...