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 Teaching of English from Columbia University. In 1951She moved to Ann ArborMichigan to teach at Ann Arbor High School and later at Pioneer High School