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Easton Express, Monday,
May 6, 1957, Page 1
Robert Clause, War Vet and Athlete, Dies
Robert S. Clause, 42, 228 W. Berwick St. Easton, died at 6:30 a.m.
today in Easton Hospital. He had been a patient there for two weeks.
A veteran of World War II and a well-known athlete, Mr. Clause was
employed as a converter for Binney & Smith, Inc.
A native of Easton, Mr. Clause was a son of Alvin Clause and the late
Bertha Horn Clause. He was graduated from Easton High School in 1932.
He was a member of the high school football team. He also played on
the South Side Cubs football team and played basketball for the Phillipsburg
Elks team of the Bi-State League.
Mr. Clause served in the Navy in World War II. He saw service aboard
an aircraft carrier. He was discharged with the rating of seaman first
class.
An employee of Binney & Smith for about eight years, he had previously
worked six years for the Treadwell Engineering Co., Palmer Township,
and six years for the Pennsylvania Butter Pretzel Co., Easton.
He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and the Holy Name
Society of the Church. He also was a member of the Easton High School
varsity "E" Club;' Easton Lodge 45, Loyal Order of Moose;
the Weston Club and the Fleas Club and was a director of the Liberty
Hose Co.
Surviving, in addition to his father, are his widow, the former Regina
Schroeder; a son, and a daughter, two brothers,
Edward, Easton, and Warren Bethlehem, and three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Tigar and Mrs. Helen Betts, his twin, both of Easton, and Mrs. Mary
Pursel, Huntington.
Funeral services will be held at 8:15 a.m Thursday at the Betchtel
Funeral Home, Easton, followed by a Requiem High Mas at 9 a.m. at St.
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