Flynn, 66, was a fourth-generation rancher, with ancestors who homesteaded in Montana Territory in the 1860s.
He had served four terms in the Montana House of Representatives, from 2011 to 2017, and announced at the end of the 2017 legislative session that he had been diagnosed with stage IV cancer.
For those of us at the Belgrade News, Flynnâs death is personal.
You see, for years since the 2011 Legislative session, Kelly Flynn wrote an immensely popular weekly âwhatâs-going-on-in-the-Legislatureâ column for the newspaper.
âHe was a good writer,â said former Belgrade News editor Michael Tucker. âHe never got in the way of his own voice.â