Sportscaster.
Born at Virden on 1 August 1964, second of four sons of George Wilbert Jago (1932-2018) and Donna Gray, he grew up on a farm near Reston. After attending Reston School, he trained for a career in broadcasting at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta. In 1984, he began working as a sports announcer at CKLQ Radio in Brandon and later joined CKX Television and Radio, covering the Brandon University Bobcats and Brandon Wheat Kings.
After leaving broadcasting in 1993, he worked at Hostess Frito Lay and Coca-Cola Bottling Company before spending 19 years as Regional Sales Manager at Leech Printing. In 1989, he married Janet Leigh Walker and they had two sons. He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 21 September 2024.
Obituary [George Wilbert Jago], Redpath Funeral Home & Crematorium.
Obituary, Brandon Sun, 28 September 2024.
“The connector,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 December 2024.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 December 2024
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