Annie Clemmer Funk - Titanic Second Class Passenger
Miss Annie Clemmer Funk was, due to receiving news that her mother was ill, returning home to America aboard Titanic as a second class passenger. She had been in India carrying out missionary work. She was not originally supposed to have been aboard Titanic but had transferred to the ship due to a recent coal strike in Britain causing a shortage of coal needed for the ships. She boarded Titanic at Southampton on 10th April 1912. While aboard Titanic she had her 38th Birthday, on 12th April.
Annie Clemmer Funk was born in Bally, Pennsylvania, United States on 12th April 1874. In 1906 she went to India as a missionary; while in India she started teaching children there.
She did not survive the Titanic disaster. Her body is not known to have been recovered. .
The school at which she taught at in India was renamed the Annie C Funk Memorial School; the school has now closed, but a memorial plaque remains there saying: “In memory of Miss A.C. Funk, Missionary. Arrived in India Dec. 1906. Left Mar. 1912. Perished with the ill-fated Titanic Apr. 15. 1912. Gone, but not forgotten."
There is also a memorial to her at Union Cemetery of the Hereford Mennonite Church, Bally, Pennsylvania, United States. The memorial there says:
Erected by the Eastern District Conference of the Mennonite Church k [.] "In memory of Annie C. Funk[.]Missionary in India 1906-1912. Daughter of James B. and Susan Funk. Born April 12, 1874. Died April 15, 1912. Aged 38 years and 3 days. She was coming home on her first furlough when death overtook her in the wreck of the steamship Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland."
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