In the 1953 yearbook, Zip Rhoades and Raella Kelley are pictured leading the processional at the senior dance at Flathead County High School. Zip was senior-class president and had met Raella when he moved to Kalispell in the summer of 1952. (Courtesy Jerry Siderius)
March 5, 2017
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Raella Rhoades met the love of her life in Kalispell
Raella Rhoades has a remarkable story of her own, and although she never achieved the prominence of her husband Rudolph “Zip” Rhoades in local lore, she helps to fill in valuable chunks of the black history of Montana.