Eleanor Karam leaves $2.7 million to UAMS
ELEANOR KARAM
Eleanor Karam, who died in 2019, for its
Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.
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Said a release:
Eleanor Blakney Karam was born in Helena, Arkansas, in 1929. She was a graduate of Little Rock High School (now Little Rock Central High School), Little Rock Junior College (now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock), and Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Her husband, Jimmy Karam, led the Little Rock Junior College Trojans football team to a 1949 national championship before becoming a successful businessperson. The couple were married nearly 50 years before Jimmy’s death in 2000. Eleanor Karam died in 2019 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease.”
Send The late Eleanor Karam. She died in 2019 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
(Provided by UAMS)
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $2.7 million gift from the estate of Eleanor Karam to support the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.
Karam died in 2019 due to complications from Alzheimer s disease. Ms. Eleanor was a true visionary with a huge heart, Dr. Jeanne Wei, director of the institute and Karam s personal doctor, said in a news release. Her love of seniors will help our clinicians better understand the aging process and delay or reverse age-associated memory loss and Alzheimer s dementia. UAMS and all mature Arkansans are most fortunate indeed. We are deeply grateful to her and her siblings John and Jean for their generosity.