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Gritzner, Alton

1904 - 1968

12 17 1953

Wisconsin's best known, most popular and most photographed Santa Claus hails from Watertown.

He is Alton F. Gritzner, 900 South Third Street.

This season, for the 15th year, Mr. Gritzner is portraying Santa Claus in the toy department of the Boston Store in Milwaukee. In the years that he has been there he has greeted more youngsters and their parents than any other Santa Claus in the state or perhaps in the nation, for he has been at it longer than most men who portray the jolly red-clad character at Christmastime.

Mr. Gritzner this year has an assistant, so that the chair of Santa Claus is occupied at all times during the store hours.

Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery [Gritzner, Alton F., b. Jul 16, 1904, d. Sep 24, 1968]