Coronavirus Claims Life Of Adored Local 'Santa' On Christmas Eve
UpdatedTue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:20 pm ET Reply Larry Kenneth Jones, 76, died Thursday from the coronavirus. An ironic date, as he played the part of Santa for 33 years in Cumming. (Shutterstock) CUMMING, GA — On Christmas Eve, a Dawsonville man known for portraying Santa for children was one of the latest casualties in Georgia of the coronavirus pandemic. For more than three decades, Larry Kenneth Jones, 76, played the part of Santa in Cumming. On Dec. 24, a night he surely loved, he died from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Tributes to Jones' legacy flooded his online ...
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