Helen Benziger’s family wasn’t one to brag about their famous forebear. Which is why Benziger didn’t learn her great-grandmother was Titanic survivor Margaret “Molly” Brown until seeing a certain movie musical as a girl in 1964.
“My mother took us to ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ with Debbie Reynolds. We were sitting in the theater watching this movie and I was just absolutely enthralled with this woman,” said Benziger during a recent visit to Denver’s Molly Brown House Museum.
“My mother put her arm across us. There were four of us [kids] and she said, “By the way, that’s your great-grandmother.”…