Letters To Santa
Typed as spelled and written by Lena Stone CriswellThe Daily Democrat
Sixty-Second Year - (Number missing)
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 19, 1962
Dear Santa:
My name is Joe Reese. I live in Marlin, Texas. I would like a little train for Christmas. My brother Mark wants a radio, and my sister Carolyn wants a record player.
I hope you find my house. You can come down the chimney and if you will look on the mantle I will leave you a big red apple. Please don't forget me.
Joe Reese.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a Little Miss Echo doll and a red and white buggy and a play house.
Your friend, Joann Rosas
I live on 512 Rickelman St.
Dear Santa:
I am a blonde headed little girl, six years old. I am in the first grade and enjoy going to school. For Christmas I want you to bring me Barbie and Ken doll, their car, house, suitcase and some clothes. Also some fuzzy, red slippers, red sweater, a jingle bracelet, and a purse. Please do not forget my mother and father and my dog Rags. Bye, bye,
Love, Monica Rose Smajstria
201 Bluebonnet St., Marlin
Dear Santa Claus:
My name is Larry Dale Nutt. I am only 3 years old and a good boy most of the time.
When you come to see all the boys and girls would you bring me a firetruck, car and trailer, pickup, digging tractor, bunk beds, and some clothes for my brother Terry and me.
Please don't forget me! Also my Mommie and Daddy because they take good care of me.
Be careful and take care of the reindeer.
See you soon.
Larry Dale Nutt
Dear Santa:
I would like a pair of cowboy boots, western jeans and jacket, a rifle and a real football. I make my bed every morning and try to be good every day, especially before Christmas. If you can't make it, we'll still be thankful. Bye
David Dewitt Johnson.
210 Bluebonnet Drive, Marlin.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a permanent, a heart-shaped disk, a skirt and a book. Please help the people in other lands to have and get the things they need and want. Help everyone to have a merry Christmas.
Love always,
Johnnie Ann Cremona
Dear Santa:
I am six years old. I want a bike and clothes for my Barbie doll, adn a doll house. I also want my sister Alice to get a bracelet, and Betty, a dress. I also want a dress for my mother; for daddy, a white shirt and tie. Thank you Santa.
Rose Ann Morris.
Santa Claus, North Pole Dear Sir:
I am a little boy 4 years old. My name is Jimmy Lee Page and I live at 308 Benjamin Street in Marlin, Texas.
Would you please bring me a Fire Truck, a Wagon and whatever else you have left that little boys like to play with. And don't forget my sisters who wrote you a letter, but didn't get them in the mail in time.
Remember the other little kids in my neighborhood, too.
Thank you Santa--Love
Jimmy Lee Page,
309 Benjamin St., Marlin, Texas.
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl 3 years old. I have been a real good little girl, so please bring me a little white horse and a truck and bring my little sister, a baby doll, and bring all the little children something.
I live at 1206 Sewanee, Marlin, Texas.
My name is Natalie Norris.
Dear Santa:
I want a cocker spaniel for Christmas or any kind of puppy.
With lots of love,
Ava Dickins
P.S. Please don't forget the puppy.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a blue Barbie doll case, please. And a blue surry buggy, please.
Love,
Janet Torgerson.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a Biocraft set. I have been a good boy. I have been making good grades at school.
Love,
Mario Scamardo
Dear Santa:
My dog wants some socks for Christmas.
Randy Shaunfield
Rt. 1, Box 81, Reagan, Texas
Dear Santa:
I would like for you to send all the unfortunate boys and girls a Christmas gift first. If you have enough left, I would like a bicycle. Thank you.
Annie Marie Huff.
Age 9, 3rd Grade
Route 2, Box 92, Marlin
c/o Arthur Hunnicutt
Dear Santa Claus:
I have been a good boy. I want a football and a football helmet and boots. Remember the other children.
From: Dean Lessman
Route 1, Marlin, Texas
Dear Santa:
Would you please bring my baby sister a baby doll, red velvet shoes with fur, one pink dress, bonnet, snow cone man and baby ring.
And I will give you some milk and cookies.
Jenny Barganier
Santa Claus:
Please bring me a gun, football suit, football and helmet.
Santa my little brother's name is Troy Burnett, please bring him some toys. My sister is old enough to write her own letter. Santa I will have cookies and milk on the table, please have some.
Thanks.
Jay Burnett
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a Rock-a-bye, please. And I want a disk, please.
Love,
Carolyn Torgerson
Age 9
Dear Santa:
I am 8 years old and in the third grade. I am not so fat but kind of thin.
Will you please bring me a bicycle and basketball goal, and bring all the other little children who won't get any presents, something.
Thank you. Yours truly,
Curtis Weatherspoon.
Rt. 2, Box 39, Kosse, Texas.
Dear Santa:
I want a dog, train, truck, and somebody to play with while my sister and brother are at school. I have a new cousin, her name is Joni, please bring her a cosmetic kit.
Goodbye till Christmas.
Troy Burnett.
Dear Santa:
I am in the first grade at school. I hope you bring me a watch and a Ben Casey set, but most of all Santa, I wish "Peace on earth, good will toward men."
Your little friend.
Gary Taylor Parsons
Dear Santa:
My name is Carlene and I'm 5 years old. I live at 909 Potomac. I've been a good little girl.
I want a marble game, a doll stroller, swing for doll, dishes and pans, cake set.
Thank you. My brother will write after he gets from school.
Carlene.
Dear Santa Claus:
My name is Terry Duane Nutt. Because I am only 5 years old my Mommie is writing for me, but I am telling her what to write.
I have been a pretty good boy this past year, so I would like for you to bring me these things:
I want a pickup truck, diggin' tractor, billfold with money, trailer, car, record player, bunk beds and that's all. Oh, yes, you could add a firetruck.
Don't forget all the poor boys and girls, my brother Larry Dale and Mommie and Daddy.
See you soon, Santa. Be careful.
Terry Duane Nutt
Rt. 2, Box 145, Marlin, Texas.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am 8 years old. I hope you can visit Marlin so all the boys and girls can see you. I want a BB gun, football suit and my two front teeth.
Your friend,
Bob Kuretsch
Route 2, Otto, Texas.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a pair of guns, and that is all. I am 7 years old. You may not believe it, but I am small for my age. Also don't forget the little children who do not have Christmas.
Love,
Randy Scheef
I live at 436 Capps Street
Marlin, Texas.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a Barbie Doll and her suitcase and bed. I hope this is not too much. Will you go to the children that do ot have Christmas. And there are going to be some cookies on the table.
From
Renea Scheef
Dear Santa:
I would like to have a football, helmet, suit, a rifle, and a game.
Larry Wade Jackson
909 Potomac
Dear Santa:
l. I am looking for you.
2. I am thinking of the children who won't have any Christmas, please give them some toys, Santa.
3. I want a Sunday coat.
4. And a fire engine.
5. Please, Santa, give the poor people some toys, Santa!
6. Please give me an army set, Santa.
See you Christmas, Santa.
Mike L. Irwin
Dear Santa:
I've been a good girl and study hard in school.
Please bring me a Baby Buttercup doll and four sets of Barbie Clothes.
Love,
Carol Vasek
Age 7
114 Ripley, Marlin
Dear Santa Claus:
May I please have a real bow and arrow and an airplane that flies by battery? And may I please have a kicking tree?
Please Santa! Thank you.
Tommy Davis
8 years old.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am in the second grade this year and study hard and try to make good grades.
Please bring me a bike, gun and a belt. Also please bring all the other boys and girls something, too.
Sincerely,
Larry Dean Brothers
214 Bluebonnet Dr., Marlin
Dear Santa Claus:
I am just a little 3 year old girl that has tried to be a good girl this year, and my mother said I have been good. Please bring me a little tea table and chairs, doll and some dishes.
Please bring my little sister, Phyllis, something too and all the other little boys and girls.
I love you. Santa,
Jeanette (missing)
214 Bluebonnet Dr., Marlin
Dear Santa Claus:
My name is Susie Nichols. I am a good girl and mind my Mama. I want (l) a Miss Mary manicure set, (2) an Elegant Lady Vanity Set, (3) a four piece Beany & Cecil luggage set, (4) a Humbaleena doll, (5) an ironing board, (6) a sink and stove, (7)(sic), (8) a refrigerator, (9) a baby stroller, (10) a sketch, (11) a color slide adn projector, (12) an electric pin ball machine, (13) a scooter, and, (14) Barbie doll clothes.
With love
Susie Nichols.
Dear Santa:
I want a doll, a Frosty Snowman, a piano, a Ken doll and a Tuxedo and some other clothes for Ken. I would like a nurse outfit and evening gown for my Barbie doll, Gaylark, the toy dog, and Susie Smart.
Please bring my dog, Be-Bo some toy to play with, too!
Diane Henry, Age 6
322 Maryland, Marlin
Dear Santa:
My nameis Tom Criswell, 719 Carter Street, Marlin, Texas. I have been a very good boy this year. Please bring me a real tractor, a fire truck and a wagon.
Love,
Tom, age 3
Dear Santa:
Please bring me a real baton and a bride doll and Barbie doll clothes and jewelry.
And I will leave some cookies and milk.
Love,
Shannon, age 10
Dear Santa:
Would you please bring me a baby doll and clothes, Barbie clothes, Chatty Kathy clothes, make up set, diamond ring, choo choo bag and a snow cone man. And I will give you some milk and cookies.
Jenny Barganier.
Dear Santa:
I am Ronnie Dell Barker. I go to school and try to be a good boy. Santa will you please bring me a large wagon, a football, a gun and holster. I have a little sister, age 5 years old. She would like very much to have a cuddle baby doll, a doll stroller, and a nurse's kit. We both would appreshate (sic) some fruits, nuts and candy if you have any to spare. Oh, yes, Santa, my sister's name is Debra Joann Barker. We live at 428 Chambers Street, Marlin, Texas.
Thank you.
Ronnie Dell Barker.
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl 4 years old. For Christmas please bring me, a bride doll, choo choo train, cook set and some corduory jeans. Bring my brother a monopoly game.
Santa, don't forget my little cousins in Missouri. You may need your sleigh when you go up there.
A friend
Karen Kalmbach.
Dear Santa:
I want a caterpillar, a drum, a fire truck and an ho choo choo train that my brother Zach can play with.
I'm three years old and live on a farm near Reagan.
Leave my caterpillar here and bring other things to Winnsboro.
I've been a pretty good little boy.
Don't forget my little friends and my brothers Zack and Tommy.
I love you, Santa, bye now
Leslie Green
Dear Santa:
I am 8 years old. I know that I am not always good. Mama says I am a typical boy. So don't you think I should have a typical boy gift, a bright red shining bicycle. I make pretty good grades in school, if that helps. Sure would like one.
David Fedro
300 Fortune St., Marlin
Dear Santa:
We want a toy for Clay. He is one year old. And we want two Barbie dolls with ponytails. One with white hair, and one with black hair. And some pickup sticks and some bobby socks size 7 1/2 and size 8 1/2.
Love,
Cathy, Carol, Clay
Dear Santa Claus:
I go to school every day. I am six years old. I am in the first grade. Please come to see me, my little brother, sister and my little friends, too. Please bring me a doll, a wagon, a gun, a bicycle, doll dishes, a story book, a toy, piano and some fruit and nuts.
Thank you very much.
Glenda Joyce.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a Ting Thumbelina, and a toy Coca-Cola machine. My little brother Craig wants a football helmet and give him anything else a little three-year-old boy might like.
Love,
Carolyn Gayle Welch.
Age 7.
107 Virginia, Marlin.
Dear Santa Claus:
My name is William Eart Kuehne. I am 9 year old and in the fourth grade. I would like a football for Christmas. Please bring the other little children what they would like for Christmas, too. May everyone have a blessed and merry Christmas.
Your friend,
William Kuehne
713 Live Oak Street, Marlin
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