Rebecca " Becky " Smith Hart, died Sunday March 23, 2025 at Courtyard Estates memory unit of Monmouth at 2:00 pm where she had been a resident for the past two years. Prior to that she lived with her husband at Tartan Bluff Farm in rural Oquawka, Illinois. She was born September 22, 1947 at Galesburg, Illinois, the daughter of John Rolf and Kathryn Meldrum Smith. She attended Galesburg grade schools and graduated from Galesburg High School with the class of 1965. She then attended Western Illinois University, graduating in 1969 with a degree in Education. She first taught at Warren Achievement School, living in Monmouth, and left there to spend a few years working in the office for Munson Trucking in Little York, IL. While working for Munson, she moved to Oquawka, where she met her future husband at a Christmas carol sing at Melburg's tavern in Oquawka, Illinois. On January 5, 1977 she married Augustin S. Hart III at what became their first rural Oquawka home.She returned to teaching

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