When Verda Viola Weis was born on 8 November 1924, in Glendale, Saline, Kansas, United States, her father, Burton Weis, was 31 and her mother, Verda Berneta Beach, was 26. She lived in Pleasant Valley Township, Saline, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Glendale Township, Saline, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 6 June 2009, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States.
German: nickname from Middle High German wīs(e) ‘wise, clever, experienced’, Middle Low German wīs.
German and Jewish: variant of Weiss . This surname is also found in Luxembourg, France (mainly Lorraine and Alsace), Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
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