Irene Colvin Corbett

Irene Colvin Corbett (August 6, 1881 - April 15, 1912) was a musician, teacher and nurse from Payson, Utah and the only Mormon to die during the Sinking of the Titanic.

Ancestry Irene's paternal family came to America around 1677 when Irene's 5th great-grandfather John Colvin moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from Glasgow, Scotland. Irene's maternal family moved to America around 1635 when Irene's 6th great-grandfather Zacheus Curtis moved to Salem, Massachusetts from Wiltshire, England.

Life Irene was born to Levi Alexander Colvin (1857–1928) and Mary Alice Curtis (1858–1940), Levi was a Mormon bishop and county official who married Mary in 1880. Irene graduated from Provo Academy with a teaching certificate and taught in an elementary school, Peteetneet Academy, a profession she left behind upon her marriage with Walter Corbett on 11 December 1905. In the winter of 1911, Irene traveled to London to study midwifery despite Walter's wishes. Irene's father, unaware of her death sent a telegram to White Star Line asking about his daughter to which they responded with the following two messages:

"New York, April 19, Levi Colvin, Provo, Utah. Neither the name of Mrs Irene Corbett nor anything like it appears on the Titanic's second cabin list of passengers as having sailed from Southampton. WHITE STAR LINE."

"New York, April 19, Levi Colvin, Provo, Utah. Now find name of Mrs Irene C. Corbett is on the list of passengers having sailed from Southampton, but regret is not a survivor on Carpathia. WHITE STAR LINE." Irene's widower remarried in 1914 but died on February 4, 1917, after a mining accident and their children were given to Levi and Mary Colvin.