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Summary Betty and Buz Carbone said their son bought the locket, which bears the letters 'AMA' or 'AWA'.
A Pennsylvania family who obtained a locket believed to have belonged to a Titanic survivor said they may have identified the original owner.Betty and Buz Carbone of Hempfield said their son bought the locket, which bears the letters AMA or AWA in intricate script, from an antiques dealer about 15 years ago and they now believe the item originally belonged to Annie Moore Ward of Philadelphia, who served as a maid for a first-class passenger on the Titanic in April 1912 and survived the sinking of the ship, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Monday.Ward, who was 38 at the time of the passenger liners sinking, died in 1955.The Carbones daughter, Beth Evangeliste of Jeannette, said Ward is the only one that came close to fitting the initials on the locket, which contained a slip of paper reading, Wreck of the Titanic, April 15th, 1912. Loss of life 1645.
