Ocean Gate. The CEO's missing wife is a descendant of Titanic victims

Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, one of the wealthiest couples on the Titanic.

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The wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who has been aboard the missing submarine since Sunday headed for the wreck of the Titanic, is a descendant of two victims of the 1912 sinking, according to new records. The York Times had access.

Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, one of the wealthiest couples on the Titanic. In fact, according to the same media, Isidor was a co-owner of Macy’s Department Store.

Rush was descended from one of Isidore and Ida’s daughters, Minnie, who married Richard Weil in 1905. Their son, Richard Weil Jr., president of Mace’s Company of New York, and son Richard Weil III, is Rush’s father, according to Joan Adler, executive director of the Strauss Historical Society. .

Survivors of the sinking are remembered by Isidore and Ida Strauss for refusing to wear life jackets in favor of the women and children still awaiting rescue. Until Ida announced that she would not leave her husband, to whom she had been married for four decades. The couple were later seen arm in arm on deck as the ship sank.

Records show that the wife of Stockton Rush, pilot of the missing Titanic submarine, is actually the great-granddaughter of two first-class passengers who died on the Titanic. A fictionalized version of the couple is featured in the film. pic.twitter.com/XVd7IkOmEw

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The wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who has been aboard the missing submarine since Sunday headed for the Titanic wreck, is a descendant of two victims of the 1912 sinking, according to records obtained by The New York Times.

Wendy Rush is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, one of the wealthiest couples on the Titanic. Isidor was actually a co-owner of Macy’s Department Store, the same source reported.

Rush was descended from one of Isidore and Ida’s daughters, Minnie, who married Richard Will in 1905. Their son, Richard Will Jr., was president of Macy’s in New York, and his son, Richard Will III, was Rush’s father, as revealed by Joan Adler, executive director of the Association Historical Strauss.

Survivors of the sinking are remembered by Isidore and Ida Strauss for refusing life jackets in favor of the women and children still awaiting rescue. Until Ida announced that she would not leave her husband, to whom she had been married for four decades. The couple were seen holding hands on deck as the ship sank. A fictionalized version of this story is included in the James Cameron film, which depicts two elderly people hugging on a bed as the water level rises in the cabin. However, Isidor’s body was found two weeks after the disaster, while Ida’s remains were never found.

Wendy Rush married Stockton Rush in 1986 and has been on three OceanGate expeditions in the past two years, according to The New York Times, based on her LinkedIn profile. In addition to being the company’s director of communications, she is also involved with the foundation’s charitable organization.

Most importantly, on the fourth day of the hunt for the OceanGate submarine, time was running out. The submarine, which was carrying five passengers on tours of the Titanic wreck, was estimated to have oxygen as of 12:08 p.m. Thursday, according to the US Coast Guard.

It is noteworthy that Stockton Rush admitted in an interview conducted with him last year that his greatest fear when making these tourist trips was being trapped on the ocean floor.

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