Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son (by Lora Lewis)

Eleanor Widener Rice: She Lost Her Husband and Son (by Lora Lewis)

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

ABC #069, segment 2

Eleanor Elkins Widener was one of the wealthiest people on the Titanic.  She watched helplessly from a lifeboat as the mighty ocean liner went down, taking her husband George and son Harry with it.  Her second marriage was to an Amazonian explorer whom she met at the dedication of a Harvard library named for her son.  

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