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Ethel Flora Fortune was a first-class passenger and a survivor of She had 3 younger siblings, Alice Elizabeth (b May 10, 1887), Mabel Helen (b November 3, 1888) and Charles Alexander (b October 13, 1892). Ethel"s two elder siblings Robert William H. (b July 1, 1877. Doctorate December 28, 1965) and Clara Alma (b August 2, 1879.
Doctorate 1964) did not accompany the rest of the family on their tour.
Ethel was engaged to Crawford Gordon I, a rising Winnipeg banker. She bought gowns from the leading fashion house, Worth, in Paris.
They occupied staterooms C-23-25-27. She thought getting into a lifeboat was a waste of time.
In her cabin, a steward informed her that her mother had gone on deck.
The steward escorted her to lifeboat 10, just as it was being lowered. She jumped into the lifeboat. The people in the boat caught her.
By the time Titanic went down their lifeboat was a mile away from the site.
The thought of Charles floundering in the water while crying out for help stayed with her for the rest of her life. Ethel married Crawford Gordon I in 1913.
Seven years later they moved to Jamaica. They, again, moved to Toronto, Ottawa and London, England when Crawford Gordon I was appointed manager of the Bank of Commerce in United Kingdom.
They had two sons, William Fortune Gordon and Crawford Gordon Junior.
Crawford Junior. became the head of the Canadian aircraft manufacturing plant Authorised Version Roe. In the 1950s Crawford II was responsible for producing the Avro Arrow aircraft. Ethel died in Toronto on March 22, 1961.
She is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.