Orville Allen, second world war and Korean war veteran, died on 29 May and his liver was successfully transplanted
Orville Allen hugging his great-grandson in March 2024.Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and when he died at age 98 he had one last thing to give: his liver.
Swelling around Allen’s brain could not be healed. As the family was preparing to say goodbye, hospital staff had a question: would they consider donating his liver? “It turned it from being such a sad loss of our dad to having this little ray of joy because he was doing what he’d done all his life,” Mitchelle said. “He was giving one more gift.”
Still, more than 100,000 people are on the nation’s list for a new organ and many will die waiting. The need is so great that scientists are working on alternatives to ease the ongoing shortages. Earlier this year in Massachusetts, Richard “Rick” Slayman became the first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney. He died two months after the transplant.
Two years ago, a liver was procured from a 90-year-old donor in Mid-America’s region, which includes eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and north-eastern Arkansas, Lee said. Last fall, livers were donated by an 88-year-old and an 84-year-old.About 12% of deceased organ donors in the first four months of this year were people age 65 or older, an Unos spokeswoman, Anne Paschke, said.
He also farmed and taught vocational agriculture at Neelyville high school, near Poplar Bluff, for nearly four decades. He and his wife of 70 years, Geraldine, who died in 2019, had three children, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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