When Verdi Kate Shottack was born on 27 September 1913, in Texas, United States, her father, Albert Harrison Shattuck, was 37 and her mother, Leila Evans BLACK, was 26. She married Archie Prebile SIMS on 25 December 1941, in Miller, Arkansas, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Rusk, Texas, United States in 1940 and Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, United States in 1941. She died on 16 October 1999, in Alto, Cherokee, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Alto, Cherokee, Texas, United States.