Will to survive: Great-granddaughters of Titanic survivor remember 100th anniversary

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Titanic

In this April 10, 1912 file photo, the Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City. [AP file photo]

Ernst Ulrik Persson

Ernst Ulrik Persson (back row, on right) with his wife Anna and two sons Ernest and Tag living in America in 1914. Persson, the great-grandfather of Erika Will of Mesa, was one of 705 survivors from the Titanic disaster April 14-15, 1912, when he was emigrating to the U.S. from Sweden. [Photo courtesy Erika Will and Michelle Langowski]