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Local man's transformation into Santa begins in Navy

Ray Eldridge holds up the picture that ended up leading him to play Santa later in life. The picture was taken during World War II when he was a sonar specialist on the U.S.S. Loy, a destroyer escort patrolling the Pacific Ocean. Eldridge didn’t have a beard when his wife Mary saw the old Navy picture. She insisted he grow his beard and the rest is local history.

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