This article originally appeared on Appleton Post-Crescent: Longtime Fox River Mall Santa dies at 87; another local Santa remembers him as an inspiration ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (WBAY) - A man fondly known as the “Fox River Mall Santa” for years passed away Tuesday at the age of 87. Russell Motschenbacher was Santa’s helper at the Fox River Mall ...

embracing the thousands of kids and families who came to see Santa at the Fox River Mall, year after year. "Being Santa, and being Santa for the people over there in Wisconsin, was so important to ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Russell Motschenbacher, commonly known in northeast Wisconsin as the “Fox River Mall Santa”, passed away peacefully in his Montana home on January 7th. People in the ...