including the Seattle-King County Board of Realtors. In 1949, she received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Whitman College, her undergraduate alma mater. Family The Penrose family of Philadelphia is one of the most prominent Cornish American families to have settled in Pennsylvania. Frances was the daughter of Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose, born December 20, 1864, in Philadelphia to Clement Biddle Penrose and his wife Mary Beasley Linnard. He went to Dayton, Washington, in the late nineteenth century as a Congregational missionary and pastor, then led Whitman College from 1894 to 1934. Stephen married, on June 17, 1896, Mary Deming Shipman of Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Nathaniel Shipman and his wife Mary Caroline Robinson. On March 18, 1934, Frances married Henry Barlow Owen in Walla Walla. He was vice president for personnel at Frederick & Nelson. She was then known publicly for four decades as Mrs. Henry B. Owen. She and Henry had a daughter, Frances Penrose Owen, whose married name is Frances Owen Pease. In 1946, Henry became founding manager of KING Radio in Seattle, a station founded by his wife's good friend Dorothy Bullitt. He later was executive vice president of King Broadcasting Company. Frances began to use the name Frances Penrose Owen only after her husband died in August 1976. Frances died March 9, 2002 at the age of 102. The Seattle Times newspaper called her one of the most important women in the state of Washington. References External links Frances Penrose Owen Profile at HistoryLink.org Frances Penrose Owen '19, obituary and photo, Whitman College Magazine, May 2002 Frances Penrose Owen dies March 9 at 102, obituary and photo in Washington State Magazine, May 2002 1900 births 2002 deaths American centenarians American people of Cornish descent Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni Whitman College alumni Bryn Mawr College alumni Women centenarians