Mrs. Cameron Willey (Catherine E. Dietrich)

image:  San Francisco Examiner, 10 May 1915. Michael Poirier Collection. Catherine Willey, 57, was the mother of Mrs. Robert Julius Thorne (Katherine S. Thorne), wife of the president of  Montgomery Ward & Company.  Catherine was from Lake Forest, Illinois, United States and had lived at the Continental Hotel in Paris, France for the previous 6 …

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Miss Ella Woods Lawrence

Ella Lawrence, 50, was a British national from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  According to the New York Times, Ella was traveling aboard Lusitania with Mrs. Burke of New York (whose name does not appear on the passenger list).  Both women had volunteered for service under the Serbian Red Cross.  Ella was lost in the Lusitania sinking. Per the …

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