Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic (10 March 1919 – 21 January 2022) was a Chilean family therapist and member of the

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(PDC). She served as the

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from 1990 until 1994 as the wife of

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Patricio Aylwin Patricio Aylwin Azócar (; 26 November 1918 – 19 April 2016) was a Chilean politician from the Christian Democratic Party, lawyer, author, professor and former senator. He was the first president of Chile after dictator Augusto Pinochet, a ...

. She was born in 1919 in

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, the daughter of Manuel Oyarzún Lorca and Ana Ivanović Roccatagliata. She married Aylwin on 29 September 1948 and they have five children: Isabel, Miguel, José Antonio, Juan Francisco, and Mariana. Mariana was the Education Minister of

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' government. Leonor Oyarzún also had 14 grandchildren (among them,

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actress Paz Bascuñán). As the First Lady, in 1990 Oyarzún transformed Fundación Nacional de Ayuda a la Comunidad (FUNACO) into Integra, which helps children in extreme poverty. The next year she inaugurated the Programa de Promoción de la Mujer (PRODEMU). Her sister Mercedes was married to politician Hugo Trivelli. Oyarzún turned 100 in March 2019, and died in

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on 21 January 2022, at the age of 102.

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