Martha Lillard: Last U.S. polio patient to use iron lung, Martha Lillard dies
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July 12, 2026
Martha Lillard rests in an iron lung in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in February Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio And survive in an iron lung. She died in Oklahoma on June 26, becoming the last American polio patient to use the machine, her sister said. She…
Who is Martha Ann Lillard? The husband, cause of death and legacy of one of America’s last iron lung polio survivors
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July 12, 2026
Martha Ann Lillard, believed to be the last person in the United States to survive polio in an iron lung, died on June 26 at the age of 78. Oklahoma After living with the effects of polio for more than seventy years. Martha Ann Lillard, who contracted…