When Stella Thelma Brown was born on 16 November 1916, in Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States, her father, James George Brown, was 31 and her mother, Goldie Millicant Wheeler, was 19. She married Lafe McCarty on 12 October 1935, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Prescott, Walla Walla, Washington, United States in 1930 and Ephrata Election Precinct, Grant, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 12 November 1974, at the age of 57, and was buried in Valley View Memorial Park, Soap Lake, Grant, Washington, United States.