WORCESTER (AP) – Lillian Gertrud Asplund lived a quiet life. She never married, had children or even got a driver’s license. Her only known survivors are two distant cousins.

Yet condolences poured in from as far as New Zealand and Argentina. The flower room at the funeral chapel was packed, though the director had only expected one bouquet. And strangers prayed and took snapshots at her graveside as the last U.S. survivor of the Titanic sinking was laid to rest Wednesday. Asplund died in her sleep at her Shrewsbury home Saturday at age 99.

“I’ve seen the movies. I’ve seen all the documentaries. It was a terrible accident,” said Giovane Luz, 32, of Leominster, who took time off work from his job as an electrician to pay his respects and take a photo of himself next to her casket. “Only lucky persons could escape from that accident. I wish I knew her in person.”

Asplund was 5 when she lost her father and three brothers after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg April 15, 1912.