Olthea “Lee” Hart, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, has died at 85 years old. She died Friday at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after a brief illness.
Hart was born Olthea Ludwig in Lawrence, Kan., on Feb. 20, 1936, and she spent much of her childhood in Kansas City, Mo. She graduated from Bethany Nazarene College in 1958 and married Gary that summer.
After graduation, Hart taught high school English in Milford, Conn., to put her husband through Yale. The pair later moved to Washington D.C. for three years for Gary’s political career and eventually settled in Colorado in 1967.
Olthea “Lee” Hart, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, has died at 85 years old. She died Friday at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after a