Leonor Oyarzún

{{Short description|Chilean socialite (1919–2022)}}

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{{family name hatnote|Oyarzún|Ivanovic|lang=Spanish}}

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|caption = Oyarzún in 1992

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|office = First Lady of Chile

|term_label = In role

|term_start = 11 March 1990

|term_end = 11 March 1994

|president = Patricio Aylwin

|predecessor = Lucía Hiriart

|successor = Marta Larraechea

|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1919|03|10}}

|birth_place = Temuco, Chile

|birthname = Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|1|21|1919|03|10}}

|death_place = Santiago, Chile

|party = Christian Democratic Party

|spouse = {{marriage|Patricio Aylwin|1948|2016|end=d.}}

|children = {{unbulleted list |Isabel |Miguel |José Antonio |Juan Francisco |Mariana}}

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Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic (10 March 1919 – 21 January 2022) was a Chilean family therapist and member of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC). She served as the First Lady of Chile from 1990 until 1994 as the wife of President Patricio Aylwin.

She was born in 1919 in Temuco, 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 Ricardo Lagos' government. Leonor Oyarzún also had 14 grandchildren (among them, telenovela actress Paz Bascuñán).{{cite news | url=http://www.lasegunda.com/Noticias/Impreso/2012/03/733464/nace-leonor--la-hija-de-paz-bascunan | title=Nace "Leonor", la hija de Paz Bascuñán | date=28 March 2012 | publisher=LaSegunda.com | accessdate=9 October 2019}}

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).[http://www.eurosur.org/FLACSO/mujeres/chile/orga-6.htm Acción de las Primeras Damas] Her sister Mercedes was married to politician Hugo Trivelli.{{cite news|url=http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id={59bf9bc1-488b-435b-8b78-ee2256974766} |title=Marcelo Trivelli. Más que un intendente: ¿Sombra para Lavín?|trans-title=Marcelo Trivelli. More than a mayor: shadow for Lavín?|last=Correa|first=Raquel|work=El Mercurio|language=Spanish|date=24 February 2002|accessdate=12 August 2016}}

Oyarzún turned 100 in March 2019,{{cite news | url=http://lanacion.cl/2019/03/10/dc-celebra-los-100-anos-de-la-viuda-de-patricio-aylwin/ | title=DC celebra los 100 años de la viuda de Patricio Aylwin | first=Ricardo | last=Pérez Vallejos | date=10 March 2019 | work=La Nación | accessdate=9 October 2019 }} and died in Santiago on 21 January 2022, at the age of 102.{{cite news |title=A los 102 años fallece Leonor Oyarzún, viuda de Patricio Aylwin |url=https://www.24horas.cl/politica/a-los-102-anos-fallece-leonor-oyarzun-viuda-de-patricio-aylwin-5154408 |access-date=21 January 2022 |publisher=24 Horas |date=21 January 2022}}{{cite news |title=Muere a los 102 años Leonor Oyarzún, ex Primera Dama y viuda de Patricio Aylwin |url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2022/01/21/1044596/muere-leonor-oyarzun-viuda-aylwin.html |access-date=24 January 2022 |publisher=Emol |date=21 January 2022}}