She boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger, together with her mother, Elizabeth Anne Mellinger. To reach their destination of Bennington, Vermont, they bought ticket number 250644 for £19 10s. Miss Mellinger and her mother survived the sinking. They entered lifeboat 14 and were later transferred to 12 by Fifth Officer Lowe. She emigrated to Canada in 1915, and in 1923 married a Welland, Ontario banker named David Daniel Mann. They had four sons: Alex, Bill, Don and Carl. In an interview with the Toronto Star on April 15, 1974, she said: