Robert Harmon Claus 1 2
- Born: 6 March 1921, Minnesota 3 1 4
- Died: 17 December 2003, Newport News, Virginia at age 82 3
Other names for Robert were Robert Apgar 1 and Robert Apgar Champine.1
General Notes:
"Bob Champine was born Robert Harmon Claus on March 6, 1921 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Robert Claus, a furrier, and Helen Minerva Apgar Claus, a beautiful young lady and professional ice skater. During her ice skating career, Helen was selected as Miss 1926 in the St. Paul, Minneapolis Winter Festival. His parents divorced when Bob and his sister Bernice were very young, so Bob went through grade school and high school as Robert Apgar. Helen Apgar Claus remarried in 1936 to Clifford Champine, a local attorney. Shortly after Bob's natural father died in a hunting accident in 1941, he decided to change his name to Robert Apgar Champine because of his high regard for his step father. He went on to make this name famous."
..."He's Got The Right Stuff", Gloria Rhoads Champine, 24 July 2004.
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In his life:
• In 1930 he lived at 4352 Nokomis Avenue South in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. 5
• Robert was counted in the 1930 US census for Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. 5 ED 27-232, SD 7, Sheet 6A, ward 12, block 492.
Enumerated as Robert Apgar.
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