Gone is the smile, the jokes, the friendly handshake, the hearty welcome. Remaining is the broken heart, the sorrow, the emptiness, the grieving.
He leaves a void in the hearts of friends in New Jersey and Virginia, where he had lived for many years.
Cliff was born on June 17, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey, to Clifford and Dorothy Messeroll Heiser. Upon graduation from Caldwell High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving during the Korean War era as a control tower operator in the then territory of Alaska.



