|
| |
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 States and overseas. She loved telling about her travels. She owned a kennel and raised dogs, worked in Schiff's Cabinet Shop alongside her husband, and ran sound for the family band, The Schiffters.
Jeanne had a big heart and enjoyed making people laugh with her stories. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Jeanne is also survived by her sisters, Beverly Selby and Belinda Youssefieh, and brother Louis "Pete" Burkes. She is preceded in death by her father Theodore DeLano, mother Juanita Burkes, and brother Dick DeLano.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, at 10 a.m. at the First Christian Church, Medicine Lodge, Kansas, with Jimmy Fleming officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
Memorials may be made to St. Joseph's Indian School in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at http://www.larrisonmortuary.com.
This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma CemeteriesThe information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.