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Submersible Pilot’s Spouse Is Descended From a Famous Titanic Couple

  Wendy Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate
  Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die
  aboard the ocean liner.
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  Isidor and Ida Straus, first-class passengers who died on the Titanic,
  are seen in a portrait taken in about 1910. Their
  great-great-granddaughter, Wendy Rush, is an OceanGate executive.
  Isidor and Ida Straus, first-class passengers who died on the Titanic,
  are seen in a portrait taken in about 1910. Their
  great-great-granddaughter, Wendy Rush, is an OceanGate executive.
  [13]Anushka Patil

  By [14]Anushka Patil
    * Published June 21, 2023Updated June 22, 2023, 10:28 a.m. ET

  Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive
  who was piloting the submersible that disappeared Sunday during a dive
  to the Titanic wreckage, is a descendant of two first-class passengers
  who died when the ocean liner sank in 1912, archival records show.

  Ms. Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor
  Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people aboard the
  Titanic for its first voyage. Mr. Straus, born in 1845, was a co-owner
  of Macy’s department store.

  Ms. Rush, born Wendy Hollings Weil, married Stockton Rush in 1986,
  according to a New York Times [15]wedding announcement. Her LinkedIn
  page says that she has participated in three OceanGate expeditions to
  the Titanic wreckage in the last two years; that she serves as the
  company’s communications director; and that she is a longtime board
  member of the company’s charitable foundation.

  Ms. Rush could not immediately be reached for comment for this item.

  Ms. Rush’s ancestors on the Titanic are perhaps best known for their
  tragic love story. Survivors of the disaster recalled seeing Isidor
  Straus refuse a seat on a lifeboat when women and children were still
  waiting to flee the sinking liner. Ida Straus, his wife of four
  decades, declared that she would not leave her husband, and the two
  were seen standing arm in arm on the Titanic’s deck as the ship went
  down.

  A fictionalized version of the Strauses’ story was immortalized in pop
  culture by the director James Cameron, whose 1997 film about the
  disaster [16]features a poignant shot of an older couple embracing in
  bed as the waters rise around their cabin.

  Ms. Rush is descended from one of the Strauses’ daughters, 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 Ms. Rush’s father, according to Joan Adler, the executive
  director of the Straus Historical Society.

  Isidor Straus’s body was found at sea roughly two weeks after the
  Titanic sank, [17]New York Times archives show. Ida Straus’s remains
  have never been recovered.

  Anushka Patil is a reporter covering live news. She joined The Times in
  2019. [18]@anushkapatil
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