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Subject: [NYSUFFOL] DREW, Marshall OBIT survivor of Titanic
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:10:48 EDT

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The following copy of an obituary . It was not dated but based upon the
information contained within the gentlemen died in 1986. It reads as follows:

Marshall Drew, 82, Survived Sinking of Titanic

Greenport - Marshall Drew, 82, and accomplished artist and one of the last
survivors of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Friday night from heart
failure at Eastern Long Island Hospital.

A resident of Westerly, RI, and a frequent visitor to Greenport where he was
born and raised, Mr. Drew entertained groups across Long Island and elsewhere
with its tail of the legendary shipwreck.

But his friends and family members said Mr. Drew's escape at age 8 from the
sinking Titanic should be remembered as the opening of a life filled with
accomplishments in teaching, photography, painting and calligraphy

Born in Greenport in 1904, Mr. Drew traveled to Cornwall, England with his
aunt and uncle in the winter of 1911-12 to visit relatives. The returning on
the Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912.
Mr. Drew and his Aunt, Lulu Drew, loaded onto a lifeboat while Lulu said a
tearful goodbye to a husband, James, who died in the shipwreck. He and his
Aunt were among about 700 survivors; about 1500 perished. Edward Kanuda of
Indian Orchard, Mass., the founder of the Titanic Historical Society in 1963,
said Mr. Drew was a charter member and was one of an estimated 20 remaining
survivors

Mr. Drew to what fine arts at Grover Cleveland high school in Ridgewood,
Queens, for 36 years.

He is survived by a daughter, Bette Elizabeth Drew of Hoboken, N.J., four
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They'll be a memorial service
at later date, with burial at Riverbend Cemetery in Westerly.

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