A tribute to a Titanic victim
- Charlotte Zureick
- Sep 29, 2024
- 2 min read
A tribute from Chattanooga, Tennessee to second class passenger and victim Annie Funk.
Picture from Chattanooga Daily Times "Miss Funk and her Indian class"
“Miss Funk and Her East Indian Class”
Chattanooga Daily Times
May 5, 1912
“Among the victims of the Titanic was a woman formerly well known in Chattanooga. She was Miss Anna Funk who did missionary work here for quite a long period. Later she went to India, where she labored among the native girls in the employ of the Methodist board of foreign missions.
“Following is a sketch of her work supplied by Mrs. A. S. Steele, of this city: ‘Nearly eleven years ago Miss Anna Funk, a consecrated young woman from Pennsylvania, whom I met at the D. L. Moody’s Training school in Northfield, Mass., asked the privilege of coming to help do mission work in the home. She was hired as sewing teacher and to call regularly on the patients at the hospitals, the inmates of the poor houses and the unfortunates in the jails and workhouses. She was a happy, earnest, active Christian. Here she got a taste of real mission work and finally she felt led to offer herself to go under the Methodist Episcopal board to the needier field of East India. There she spent five years, and very reluctantly started to come to America, saying she was greatly needed out there, but her aged parents in Pennsylvania longed to see her once more, although they cheerfully laid her up the altar for the Master’s service. So, she started for home with a heart divided between two decisions, but, sad to say, she went down with the Titanic.’
“We can but wonder why. Many hearts will cherish her memory with love and gratitude. Who will go and take the place made vacant?”
Additional reading:
Biography of Annie Funk
D. L. Moody Bible Institute: D. L. Moody's Story
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