The True Love Story That Inspired “Titanic” Will Leave You in Tears

Worried Widow

Samuel Willis died on his daughter’s birthday, February 4th, in 1953. Kate was left a widow, living with her daughter’s family in Pasadena, but the group soon moved out to Oregon. She lived there until her passing in July of 1972. She was 96 years old when she finally passed away and was buried out in Monmouth, Oregon…

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