{"id":73150,"date":"2022-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/15\/remembering-helen-harman-who-lived-to-100\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:23:00","slug":"remembering-helen-harman-who-lived-to-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/15\/remembering-helen-harman-who-lived-to-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Helen Harman, who lived to 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Helen Harman, wife of the late Denham Harman, MD, PhD, died Feb. 26 at Josie Harper Hospice House at the age of 100. Her story was featured in UNMC Today when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/23\/time-out-with-t-o-aging-gracefully\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated her 100th birthday<\/a> on Aug. 23, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A public relations professional, Helen Harman was active in several UNMC and community organizations, including the medical auxiliary, the faculty wives group, the Henry Doorly Zoo Guild, the Art Guild and Planned Parenthood. She and her late husband, Denham Harman, MD, were married for 71 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Denham Harman was a famed researcher who served on the UNMC faculty for 52 years, 1958 through 2010. Dr. Harman&nbsp;was nominated six times for a Nobel Prize and was called the &quot;Father of the Free Radical Theory of Aging.&quot; Sponsored by the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, the Denham Harman, MD, PhD, Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology&nbsp;was established in 2002 by the University of Nebraska Foundation in honor of Dr. Harman.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be 11 a.m.&nbsp;Saturday, March 26, at Dundee Presbyterian Church, 5312 Underwood Ave. There will be a reception afterwards in the church parlor.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" gYB oA KDxbLiecs UqPms\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harman was a public relations professional and wife to famed UNMC aging researcher Denham Harman, 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