When Verna Bernice Meyen was born on 13 November 1911, in Sutherland, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, her father, Herman Albert Meyen, was 36 and her mother, Edla Katarina Lundgren, was 32. She had at least 1 son with William Edward Funk. She lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Wallace Election Precinct, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 25 December 1973, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sutherland, Lincoln, Nebraska Territory, United States.