Hoag was lifelong educator with interest in history and travel

Retired teacher Kate Saunders said her mother, Eleanor Mathilda Hoag, 95, died Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, at Marcus Daly Hospice in Hamilton, Mont. of natural causes.
The obituary Eleanor wrote for herself is succinct: ^Born in ChicagoIllinois on February 101923the daughter of Edward Sidney Bartz and Bertha Mathilda (Miller) Bartz. She attended Chicago public schools and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1944 with a B.A. in English. In 1947she received her M.A. in…