From the June 9, 2012, Napa Valley (Ca) Register "Titanic survivor's grave site dedicated during Landmarks tour."
Eino Lindquist died of a stroke at Napa State Hospital in 1958 at age 66. He is buried in a potter's field at Tulocay Cemetery with other Napa State Hospital patients who couldn't afford a marker.
His new marker reads "Eino Lindquist Titanic Sirvivor."
Eino Lindquist, a native of Finland, survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 and is buried in the potter's field in an area of unmarked graves. Lindquist, born in 1892, came to this country in search of a better future.
He was a steelworker in Pennsylvania and New York State and traveled across much of the United States. He died in 1958 at age 66 while a patient at Napa State Hospital.
During the late 1950s, a number of patients from the hospital who couldn't afford marked graves were buried in this 100-by-100 foot square plot of land known as Block 176.
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