Jo Anna March Clift, of Poulsbo, died on June 6 at the Martha & Mary care center following a long illness. She was 76.

She was born Oct. 16, 1932, in Lawrence, Kan., the daughter of George Miles and Mary Atkinson March. She graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1950.

In 1954 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in theater from Kansas University, where she was a member of Pi Phi sorority and Phi Beta Kappa.

She was a stage, television and film actress. She appeared on Broadway in “Miss Lonelyhearts” in 1957 and “Something About a Soldier” in 1960. She appeared in live television dramas of the 1950s and was a regular performer in the radio soap opera “The Second Mrs. Burton.” She was also featured in the film “Burglar” with Whoopi Goldberg.

In Lawrence, she hosted the local Sunflower Cable television shows “The Gingerbread Lady” and “Scene 497,” both in the early 1970s. She taught fifth grade at Sunset Hill School in Lawrence from 1974 to 1985.

On May 10, 1959 she married Leonard Schneider in New York City; they divorced in 1985. In December 1985, she married Brooks Clift, brother of film star Montgomery Clift, in Albuquerque, N.M. He preceded her in death in 1986.

Her first cousin was longtime Bainbridge resident Frances Hanford, who along with her husband, Dana Hanford, Sr., and their children, was part of her extended Bainbridge family.

She is survived by her former husband, Leonard Schneider, of Lawrence; sons Paul Miles Schneider of Los Angeles and John March Schneider, of Overland Park, Kan.; cousins Dana (Jessica) Hanford, Jr., and Bob (Barbara) Hanford and their daughters, Helen and Alison.

No services are planned. Private inurnment will be at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.