Dayl and Carol Sorg-

Lives Invested in Community

BORN just over two months apart in 1925 Carol Ziegler and Dayl Sorg were both twenty years old when they were married in Chicago shortly after World War II was over and the end of Dayl’s two-year service with the US Marines. They lived all fiftytwo years of their married life in the Baraboo area. While Dayl was born in Sauk County at Sauk City, Carol was from Iowa and had found her way to Chicago by way of nursing school. In Baraboo, Carol worked at St. Mary’s Ringling Hospital and as a public health nurse while Dayl worked as an engineering clerk at Wisconsin Power & Light.

Their lives took a completely different course in 1954 when they purchased and managed the A&W Root Beer Family Restaurant and Drive-In located in West Baraboo. During the course of their twenty-three years of ownership, the Sorgs employed hundreds of young people from the area who became “Sorg kids.” Dayl Sorg was elected to the West Baraboo village board in 1959

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Dayl Sorg and Carol Ziegler were married in 1945 in Chicago and lived all of their married life in the Baraboo area where they invested in the community.