Walter Charles Claus

1897 - 1968  (70 years)

• Name	Walter Charles Claus
  Born	28 Feb 1897	Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Jan 1968	Florida, USA   [1, 2]
  Buried	Hillside Memorial Park, Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I62791	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2014

  
  

  Father	Henry Phillip Claus,   b. 1 May 1870, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 20 Mar 1944, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Minnie Caroline S. Brubach,   b. 28 Jun 1876, Summit Township, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 29 Dec 1966, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 90 years)
  Married	30 Jan 1894	Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F27911	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lydia Louise Kilburn,   b. 25 Sep 1897, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 9 Mar 1919, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA  (Age 21 years)
  Married	31 Oct 1916	Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA
  Children	1. Wilburt Walter Claus,   b. 7 May 1917, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 22 Jan 2007, Summit Acres Nursing Home, Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 89 years)   2. Grace Lydia Claus,   b. 8 Mar 1919, Lewisville, Monroe County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 17 Jul 1991, Portage County, Ohio, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F27748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Freda Lillian Hossman,   b. 27 May 1899, Ohio, USA ,   d. 24 Oct 1986, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Married	4 Nov 1922	Monroe County, Ohio, USA
  Children	1. Evelyn Claus
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F27749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S927] Obituary. Claus, Walter C. Claus LKP#7 Water C. Claus, Akron?s telephone Santa, Dies in Melbourne, Florida. Akron?s Santa Claus of the telephone wires is dead. 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. [S888] Social Security Death Index 1935 - Current, (www.ancestry.com). Name: Walter Claus SSN: 290-10-7464 Last Residence: 44305 Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States of America Born: 28 Feb 1897 Died: Jan 1968 State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (Before 1951 )