Religion Roman Catholicism Preceded by Lucia Hiriart Name Leonor Oyarzun | Nationality Chilean Spouse Patricio Aylwin (m. 1948) | |
 | ||
Full Name Leonor Oyarzun Ivanovic Children IsabelMiguelJose AntonioJuan FranciscoMariana Political party | ||
Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic (born 10 March 1919) is a former First Lady of Chile and the widow of former President Patricio Aylwin.
She was born in 1919 in Temuco, the daughter of Manuel Oyarzún Lorca and Ana Ivanovic Roccatagliata. She married Aylwin in 1948 and they have five children: Isabel, Miguel, José Antonio, Juan Francisco and Mariana, who was the Education Minister of Ricardo Lagos' government, and 14 grandchildren (among them, telenovela actress Paz Bascuñán).
As the First Lady, in 1990 Oyarzún transformed the Fundación Nacional de Ayuda a la Comunidad (FUNACO) into Integra, an institution which helps children in extreme poverty. The next year inaugurated the Programa de Promoción de la Mujer (PRODEMU). Her sister Mercedes was married with the politician Hugo Trivelli, both parents of Marcelo Trivelli.
