Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate president, who gets on board the missing Titan submersible, is come down from a New York pair who sank on Titanic. Ms Rush’s great-great-grandparents Isidor and also Ida died when the sea lining sank in 1912, according to New York Times record.

According to the historical documents gotten by the media electrical outlet, Isidor Straus and also his wife, Ida were 2 of the most affluent individuals aboard the Titanic for its very first trip. Ms Straus, birthed in 1845, was a co-owner of Macy’s outlet store.

The Straus are kept in mind for their relocating screen of love when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. A catastrophe that asserted greater than 1,500 lives.

Ida Straus decline a seat on a lifeboat when females and also youngsters were still waiting to take off the sinking lining. Ida rejected to do without her other half.

Ms Rush obtained wed to Stockton Rush in 1986. According to her LinkedIn web page, she has actually joined 3 OceanGate explorations to the Titanic wreck in the last 2 years. She is the business’s interactions supervisor and also a long time board participant of the business’s philanthropic structure.

According to New York Times, Ms Rush is come down from of among the Strauses’ little girls, Minnie, who wed Dr Richard Weil in 1905. Their kid, Richard Weil Jr., later on acted as head of state of Macy’s New York, and also his kid, Dr Richard Weil III, is Ms Rush’s papa, according to Joan Adler, the executive supervisor of the Straus Historical Society.