Clifton “Cliff” G. Sager was born March 29, 1917, in Chicago to George and Helen (Jiran) Sager. Two years later, on Nov. 23, 1919, Shirley J. Sager was born in Cedar Grove to Adolph and Lena (Theune) Stokdyk.
The two married on Aug. 21, 1940, in Yuma, Ariz.
Clifton and Shirley owned and published The (Cedar Grove) Villager for fifteen years. They were also journalists for various television and radio stations, and she helped to produce educational films for the state of Wisconsin.
As a youth, Clifton moved to Milwaukee, where he graduated from Milwaukee Bay View High School in 1935 and later graduated from Carroll College in Waukesha in 1940. In addition to his film-making for the state of Wisconsin, Clifton made films documenting the construction of the Hancock building in Chicago and spent 10 years there creating other industrial films.
Shirley was a 1937 graduate of the Wisconsin Memorial Academy in Cedar Grove. In addition to her newspaper career, Shirley worked for the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce as a visitor guide, served as the local historian and tour guide in the Cedar Grove area, and enjoyed photography, reading, writing, history, travel, pottery, doll collecting, gardening, cooking and being with people.
Clifton died Jan. 12, 2012, at Cedar Grove Gardens, and Shirley died Feb. 23, 2017, at the Cedar Grove Gardens. Together they had three daughters and five grandchildren.
