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PORTLAND, ORLAND (KOIN) – A Molalla woman has unknowingly made a special gift to the medical world.
Rose Marie Bentley, who died of natural causes at the age of 99 in October 2017, donated her body to science.
When students from Oregon Health and Science University examined his body in the spring of 2018, they discovered that the woman's organs were not where they should normally be.
Bentley was suffering from a health problem called "situs inversus with levocardia", which meant that his vital organs were inverted – almost like a mirror inside the body. This normally results in life-threatening heart problems, but Bentley has spent 99 years without knowing that she was suffering from a rare disease. According to OHSU, she may be the oldest known person with the disease.
Assistant professor Cameron Walker said the probability of finding someone with inverted organs like Bentley's is 1 in 50 million.
His body also had other rapids, including a lung with only two lobes, while most people had three.
Bentley's family said that she lived without any chronic illness, apart from arthritis. They added that she would have liked all the attention that she receives.
"My mother would think it's too cool," said Louise Allee, one of Bentley's five children. "She would be tickled in pink to be able to teach something like that, she would probably have a big smile on her face, knowing that she was different, but was successful."
Bentley spent most of her adult life near Molalla where she and her husband, James Bentley, owned and operated the Bentley Feed Store. The store was heavily damaged after the fire that broke out in the old building of the nearby shop in February. The store still sells farm and pet supplies under the ownership of their grandson, Brian Bentley, and his wife, Ashley. A GoFundMe has been set up to help rebuild the business.
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