A teacher many longtime Galesburg residents will remember from their own school days has died. Carolyn S. Park, 93, of Galesburg, died Thursday, July 23, 2026, at OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home in Peoria. Park spent 41 years teaching second grade in Galesburg, at Hitchcock and Bateman elementary schools before retiring from Lincoln Elementary School in 1996, according to her son, Robert Park. She was a 1951 graduate of Galesburg High School and Knox College in 1955, followed by a master’s degree from Western Illinois University in 1962. Park was deeply involved in her college sororities, Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Alpha Iota, continuing on in their alumni chapters and serving for years as Province President of Sigma Alpha Iota.