Bertha Wintermute

STATUS: 
Survivor
AGE: 
23
MARITAL STATUS: 
Single
ETHNICITY: 
GENDER: 
F
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...invited her niece and niece's fiancé...

Bertha Wintermute worked at Western Electric as did many of her friends. She attended the employee picnic with her young niece, Hazel Myers, and was accompanied by her betrothed, James Hays.

They boarded the Eastland and were some of the lucky ones to escape with their lives.

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