Martha Lillard | |
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Born | Martha Ann Lillard June 8, 1948 Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Known for | Being the last person in the iron lung |
Family | Cindy (sister), Daryl (brother-in-law) |
Martha Ann Lillard[1] (born June 8, 1948) is an American polio survivor who is still living in an iron lung. She became the only person after Paul Alexander's death still living in the iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953 when she was five years old.[2]