Eleanor 'ellie' kincaid, 73

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:05:39 +0000

Eleanor “Ellie” Kincaid, 73, died peacefully on July 28 at her home on North 7th Avenue, where she had lived since 1996, back when the neighborhood was “just normal people” and not “whatever this is now.”

She arrived in Bozeman in 1994 for a nine-month visiting lecturer position in the MSU English department and stayed for thirty-two years, a fact she mentioned at every faculty potluck, city commission meeting, and chance encounter in the Co-op bulk aisle. “I was only going to stay until I finished my book,” she would say, tapping the spine of the unpublished manuscript that traveled with her from apartment to rental to the starter home she bought in 1998 for what she insisted was “a completely reasonable amount of money.”

Longtime Residents on The Bozeman Daily Bee

Eleanor 'ellie' kincaid, 73