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Mrs. ALBERT CLAY BILICKE (GLADYS HUFF), Saloon Class Passenger


image credit:  San Francisco
Examiner, 10 May 1915/Mike Poirier.

Gladys Bilicke, née Huff, 50, lived at 699 Monterey Road, South Pasadena, California, United States, with her husband Albert, two sons, and one daughter.

At the time of the last voyage of the Lusitania, the Bilickes had been married for 15 years.  When the torpedo hit the ship, Albert and Gladys was in their B deck cabin.  They rushed onto deck and entered a lifeboat with Reverend David Loynd and his wife Alice.  The boat went perpendicular, spilling out everyone aboard.

Landing in the water, Gladys grabbed onto a spar and floated on it for several hours.  Despite being in the water for long periods of time, she spent long hours walking through the morgues looking for her husband.  Albert did not survive and Gladys had a memorial erected for him in Los Angeles.

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Contributors:
Mike Poirier

References:
Hoehling, A. A. and Mary Hoehling.  The Last Voyage of the Lusitania.  Madison Books, 1956.

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