The day van der Hart met with this reporter, he was out in the sun, among his paintings, talking with everyone who passed. He said his audience was the people driving by in their cars or walking past ...

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Hart married his wife Helen in 1947 and was the father of 12 children, and all eight of his sons became wrestlers. Hart died in 2003 at the age of 88, after a bout with pneumonia.