The couple had two sons, Kenneth Patrick and Garry Thomas Bray, before they separated in 1940. On July 9, 1936, at Davenport, Washington, Runnels married Johnnie Bray. The children began their schooling in Keller, Washington, but when Runnels was 10, they taken from their father's farm and sent by Indian Agency officials to American Indian boarding schools. (1924), and Thaddeus (1927) - were enrolled with their father in the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Runnels and her siblings - Mary E (1908), John A. Maude had previously been married to James Stirk, but he and their son James, Jr. Her mother was enrolled as a Pine Ridge Sioux, along with her half-sister Pearl Stirk and oldest brother Raymond Runnels. Stella Nellie Runnels was born on June 12, 1918, in Ferry County, Washington to Maud/Maude Stella (née Sears) and Hiram Bagley Runnels. Stella Leach (J– January 29, 2010) was a Colville- Oglala Lakota nurse and activist who was known for her work in establishing the first American Indian children's wellness center in the San Francisco Bay Area, setting up the health clinic during the Occupation of Alcatraz, and her activism for native American self-determination.
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