Recently the public has been viewing the headlines with the name of the wife of Stockton Rush and the long-drawn ship Titanic. Many find it fascinating to have found something after all these years and want to explore more on this subject, so if you are a person who thinks the same, then you should dive into this article and learn everything we have here about Stockton Rush’s Wife and her relation with the Titanic Victims.
First of all, who is Stockton Rush and his wife? Right, it is only fair to introduce them before hurrying with the main subject. The 61 years old Stockton Rush, whose birth name is Richard Stockton Rush III, was born on 31 March 1962 in San Francisco, California, United States. He was an American businessman, well-known for being the chief executive officer and co-founder of OceanGate, the company for deep-sea exploration.
He got killed on 18 June 2023 along with four of his other companions aboard Titan, a submersible of OceanGate, which imploded in the sea while attempting to visit the Titanic’s wreck in the North Atlantic Ocean. Stockton, on a podcast in 2022 with a CBS reporter, stated that safety is pure waste and continued saying it is just a risk or reward question and that he can do this safely by not following the rules.
In 1986 Stockton got married to Wendy Well, and the couple shared two children. As per her profile on LinkedIn, Rush has partaken in three expeditions in the past two years to the Titanic wreckage. She is also a board member for a long time in the OceanGate, a charitable foundation (the company is responsible for properly organized visits to the wreckage of the Titanic), and its Communications director.
Is that all about her? Of course not. You will find the rest of her history, which was connected to the Titanic Victims, below. All you have to do to unveil the mystery is scroll down.
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Stockton Rush Wife: Who Is She Related To?
The wife of Stockton Rush, the pilot of the missing submersible, is a descendant of a couple who died on the Titanic shipwreck, Isidor Straus and Ida Stratus, his wife. They both were first-class passengers on the Titanic who died in 1912 during the ship sank into the ocean. Wendy Rush is invented to be the great-great-granddaughter of the Stratus couple, who is also the Macy’s department store’s co-owner.
The Stratus couple were the wealthiest on the Titanic. As per various reports, Isidor Straus is said to have denied any opportunity to leave the ship and board a lifeboat while the children and women in the ship were evacuated from the liner that was sinking. She was determined not to leave her beloved husband behind.
According to the testimonials of the survivors, the couple was standing with each other arm-to-arm on the deck of the Titanic as the ship went down the ocean. Well, they deserve to be the real-life Jack and Rose at this point.
The director of Titanic, the worldwide blockbuster hit in 1997, James Cameron, has added a fictional version of the Straus couple’s story. Wait, What? Yes, remember? There was a shot in the movie where two elderly couples embrace each other in their bed inside the ship while the ship is drowning and the water level inside the vessel rises. Isidor’s dead body was found two weeks later at sea, but his wife, Ida’s body was not found.
As per various sources, Wendy Rush is an offspring of Minnie, one of the daughters of the Straus’. In 1905 Minnie was married to Dr. Richard Weil. Richard Weil Jr, their son, later worked as Macy’s New York’s president, and Dr. Richard Weil III, his son, is the father of Wendy Rush, according to the Straus Historical Society’s Executive director, Joan Adler.
