Family
Millvina Dean was born in Branscombe, England, to Bertram Frank Dean (1886-1912) and Georgette Eva Light(1879-1975). She had a brother, Bertram Vere Dean, born 21 May 1910. Millvina Dean never married and had no children. Dean's father died on the Titanic; her mother died on 16 September 1975, aged 96; and her brother Bertram Vere died, age 81, on 14 April 1992.
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