Virginia M. Schanche

Virginia M. Schanche

AGE: 90 • Wilmington, DE

Virginia Nadine Miller Schanche passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 18, 2014, at the age of 90.

She was born in 1924 to Hazel, a school teacher, and Wilbur Miller, a farmer, in Gresham, Nebraska. Together with her older sister Lucille and younger sister Helen she was raised on the family farm and was graduated from McCool Junction High School.

With Lucille she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she worked for the Department of Treasury and then the Social Security Administration. She worked primarily in claims investigations. She met Wayne Curtis Schanche, originally of Yankton, South Dakota, while at Social Security, and they were married in 1943. They lived in Kansas City, Missouri and Baltimore, and had three children - Gary, Greg and Susan. After they both retired from the Social Security Administration they moved to Winchester, Virginia. In 1989 they moved to Wilmington to be with Susan and her family. She had a deep love of reading, music, and family.

She was preceded in death in 2002 by Wayne, her husband of 59 years, and her son Greg in 2007. She is survived by her sister Lucille Splinter, of York, Nebraska, and Helen Stewart, of Menlo Park, California, her son Gary, and his wife Carol, of Atlanta, Georgia, and her daughter Susan Heiss, and her husband Ralph, of Wilmington, and her eight grandchildren, Kristin, Kimberly, Matthew, Shawn, Laura, Ryan, Tyler and Kyle, and one great-grandaughter, Evelyn.

Services will be held at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 1301 N. Broom St., Wilmington, on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 with a visitation from 12 until 2, followed by a funeral service at 2 PM. Interment will take place in York, Nebraska on September 27.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the American Diabetes Association or the American Cancer Society.

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