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Walter C. Claus, 70, of 512 Melrose Street, Akron, died Wednesday, January 3, 1968, in his winter home in Melbourne, Florida, of an apparent heart attack.
Starting in 1939, when he got his first telephone at the Melrose Street Address, Mr. Claus began playing Santa to all youngsters who called around Christmas, asking to speak to St. Nick.
"They had faith and I didn't let them down," Mr. Claus once said. "Children would call, and some would talk to me for a long time, I guess I was sort of Christmas Duth[sic-Dutch] uncle-confessor."
Mr. Claus estimated he took more than a hundred calls every season until 1957, when he retired from Goodyear after 37 years' service, and began moving south for the winter.
If the children called while he was at work, Mr. Claus' wife, Freda, took numbers, and he returned the calls.
Mr. Claus was born near Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, the son of Henry and Minnie Brubach Claus. He lived in Akron more than fifty years. He was a member of the Goodyear Heights Community Church, the Masonic Joppa Blue Lodge 666, and Goodyear's 25-year Club.
Surviving are his wife, Freda Claus; one son, Wilbert Claus of Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Reed, of Akron, and Mrs. Grace Jones, of Tallmadge; eight grandchildren; three great grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Hulda McDonough, of Akron.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at one o'clock in the Adams Funeral Home at Akron, with Rev. Charles A. Distler officiating. Burial was in Hillside Memorial Park, Akron, Ohio.
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