Stella Foland was born at Parnell, Missouri, January 1, 1896 and was a graduate of St.Joseph's Academy at Clyde. Shortly after her graduation she entered, was invested January 30, 1915 and made her first vows on January 30, 1916, receiving the name of Sister M. Marcella. She was a small person, with a very happy and kind disposition, energetic, and very capable at all kinds of work. Though frail and unaccustomed to hard labor, she was generous and sacrificial in helping with whatever general work was to be done - a model and encouragement to her less energetic and inexperienced younger companions in the novitiate. Her assigned work was in the correspondence department.

Sister was one of the victims of the Spanish Influenza epidemic which swept the country after World War I. Sister M. Marcella was one of the more seriously stricken and within a few days Sister contracted pneumonia, which proved fatal.

Sister M. Marcella made her perpetual vows on her death-bed and died at the age of twenty-four on February 17, 1920.