Madge Bester
Madge Bester was a former world's shortest living woman. From South Africa, in 1991 she measured 65 cm in height. Bester had osteogenesis imperfecta, which is characterized by brittle bones, and used a wheelchair.
She was a campaigner for disability rights, holding a 1998 press conference on the issue accompanied by Lin Yih-Chih, the world's smallest man.
Bester lived in a retirement village in Bloemfontein. Her mother Winnie, who died in 2001, also had osteogenesis imperfecta and measured only 70 cm.
Bester died on 19 March 2018, aged 54.
