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Eleanor Owen, an advocate for mental health care in Washington state for more than 50 years, died Feb. 7. Owen had celebrated her 101st birthday less than one month ago. After her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the late 1960s, she founded the Washington Advocates for the Mentally Ill and co‐founded the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Seattle Post‐Intelligencer reported. In 1999, King County Executive and Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Ron Sims honored her with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the King County Mental Health Exemplary Service Awards, according to Wikipedia. In 2000, she received the Jefferson Award from the Seattle Post‐Intelligencer for her advocacy work on behalf of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
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