<P> Lillian Gertrud Asplund (October 21, 1906--May 6, 2006) was one of the last three living survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 . She was the last American survivor, and also the last survivor with actual memories of the disaster . </P> <P> Lillian Asplund was born on October 21, 1906 in Worcester, Massachusetts, to a Swedish immigrant family father Carl Oscar Vilhelm Gustafsson Asplund and mother Selma Augusta Emilia Johansson . Her parents had lived briefly in Missouri prior to settling in Massachusetts . Lillian had a twin brother, Carl Edgar, and two older brothers, Filip Oscar, born in 1898 and Clarence Gustaf Hugo, born in 1902 . A fourth brother, Edvin Rojj' Felix', was born in 1909 . </P> <P> In 1907, Lillian's father had taken his family to Småland, Sweden, to help his widowed mother settle problems with the family farm . By early 1912, the family was ready to return to the United States, and Lillian's father booked passage for his family on the Titanic . </P> <P> Lillian, her parents and four brothers boarded the Titanic at Southampton, England on April 10, 1912 as third - class passengers . Lillian was five years old at the time and recalled that the ship "was very big, and it had just been painted . I remember not liking the smell of fresh paint ." </P>

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