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Verna left this earthly world to join our Lord in Heaven on November 20, 2021. She had been in the hospital with several chronic ailments. The last week of her hospital stay was in the care of Pathways Hospice in Loveland, Co. At the time of her death she was living in Akron, Co with her daughter.

Verna was born on February 15, 1935 at home in Sidney, NE to Mark and Leona Schilz. She was the middle child of 7 children. She attended school in Sidney, Platte Center, Belgrade, St. Edwards, and returned to Sidney to graduate high school at St. Pat’s in 1953. After graduation she held several...