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Verla Jean DeLano Schiff was born March 13, 1935, in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and passed from this earth January 10, 2020, at Kansas Medical Center, Andover, Kansas, at age 84 years, 10 months.

Verla graduated from Medicine Lodge High School. She married Daryl Martin Schiff on September 18, 1965. They were married nearly 55 years.

She raised four children: Stephen Alan Clark (Jean), Gina Lynn Leiker (Steve), Martina Mariea McBride (John) and Daryl Martin Schiff, II (Janelle). She enjoyed her 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

In her 20s she traveled and lived in many places in the United...