Susan Kimball
Susan Gertrude Kimball was born in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts in 1866. She was one of the daughters of merchant Isaac Parsons and Anna Smith. On September 26, 1893, Susan married Edwin Nelson Kimball in Brooklyn. The couple remained childless for the rest of their lives.
Susan Gertrude Kimball boarded the Titanic with her husband Edwin Nelson Kimball in Southampton on April 10, 1912, as First Class Passengers. She and her husband stayed in cabin D-19.
On the night of the sinking (April 14–15, 1912), Susan, her husband Edwin, and other friends Richard Leonard Beckwith, Helen Monypeny Newsom, Sarah Maybell Beckwith, and Karl Howell Behr came on deck and boarded lifeboat 5, which saved their lives.
In the years after the Titanic disaster, Susan continued to live with her husband Edwin Nelson Kimball in Massachusetts, though they later moved to Newton, Middlesex. Susan Kimball was widowed when her husband died in 1927, so she moved to live with her sister Ellen, also her widow.
Susan Gertrude Kimball died in Boston in 1962 due to cancer at the age of 95. She was buried with her late husband in Newton Cemetery, West Newton, Massachusetts.