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REVEALED: Wife of Titan pilot and OceanGate CEO is great-great-granddaughter of Macy's founder and his spouse made famous in James Cameron's smash movie as the elderly couple embracing on bed as Titanic went down
Wendy Rush is the wife of Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, who is on board the missing Titanic tourist submersible
Rush's great-great-grandfather, Isidor Straus, co-owned Macy's with his brother Nathan: Straus and his wife Ida died on board the Titanic
In James Cameron's 1997 film, Straus and his wife are depicted lying on their bed in their first-class cabin as the water rises around them
June 21, 2023
The wife of the CEO of OceanGate, who was piloting the missing Titanic tourist submersible, is descended from a wealthy New York couple who drowned on the Titanic when the famed ship hit an iceberg in 1912.
Wendy Rush is the wife of Stockton Rush, one of the five people trapped in a Titan sub that went missing Sunday after a trip to visit the Titanic wreckage.
Crews are now racing to try and find the missing sub in a massive international rescue effort.
Wendy's great-great-grandparents, Isidor and Ida Straus, died in the 1912 disaster.
Isidor is a co-founder of Macy's department store. He and his wife were featured in James Cameron's 1997 film about the disaster as the two fictionalized versions were shown embraced on a better as water rushed into the ship and around them.
The pair had in real life been offered seats on a lifeboat - her as a woman, and him as a well-known former congressman and co-owner of Macy's department store. But Isidor refused, saying he would not go until all the women and children had gone, and Ida then refused to go without her husband of 40 years.
She gave her mink coat to her maid, Ellen Bird, to keep her warm as she sailed away on the lifeboat.
Wendy Rush, born Wendy Hollings Weil, married engineer and entrepreneur Stockton Rush in 1986.
She is descended from Isidor and Ida Straus's daughter Minnie, who married Dr. Richard Weil in 1905.
Their son, Richard Weil Jr., later served as president of Macy's New York, and his son, Dr. Richard Weil III, is Wendy Rush's father, The New York Times reported.
Wendy Rush has visited the Titanic wreckage three times with her husband's company in the last two years, and works as OceanGate's communications director.
Stockton Rush, 61, founded OceanGate in 2009.
The Seattle-born, Princeton-educated aeronautical engineer worked on fighter jets and initially hoped to go to Mars before switching his attention to the sea.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12220775/Submersible-pilots-wife-descendant-famous-Titanic-couple-died-arm-arm.html
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