Raella Kelley graduated in 1957 from the St. Patrick School of Nursing in Missoula, which she attended to be close to her boyfriend Zip Rhoades while he attended the University of Montana. The couple married two years later. (Courtesy Willard “Shorty” Stockard)
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.