Verl Annette Ross, 68, died Jan. 22, 2018, in Dallas, Texas, from heart failure and complications of cancer. She was born Feb. 18, 1949, in Iola, the 12th and youngest child of William Elmer Ross and Zaida Marie (Worden) Ross. She was raised in Bayard, and began her education at Center Valley, a one room school east of Bayard. She later attended Moran Grade School, Moran Rural High School and Wichita South High School, and graduated from Moran Rural High School as salutatorian in 1967. She was a member of the Mildred 4-H club and was baptized in the Mildred Methodist Church.
Verl attended Pittsburg State College and the University of Kansas and completed her nursing degree at Trenton State College, N.J., in 1979.
She married Lee Rose in 1972; they later divorced.
Verl began her nursing career in the New York City area and later moved to South Bend, Ind., to work in the Chicago area. She moved to Dallas in 1986 to work at the VA hospital for a while, then did home health care nursing until becoming ill last November.
Verl was preceded in death by her parents; an infant sister; sisters Helen Smith, Lois Kershner and Doris McCollum; and brothers George, Lawrence, James and Russell. She is survived by her sister Marjorie Logsdon and husband Merlyn, Winfield; brothers Paul Dean, Indianapolis, Ind., and Gale, Allen, Texas; sisters-in-law Vera Ross, Duncan, Okla., and Eleanor Ross, Iola; and several generations of nieces and nephews.
Cremation has taken place. The family plans to have a memorial service at the Mildred Methodist Church with inurnment at Fairview Cemetery, with the date to be announced later this spring.
The family requests that no flowers be sent. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to ACARF or to the American Cancer Society.
