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                           CAMCO FINANCIAL CORPORATION

                               September 23, 2005

VIA EDGAR
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Ms. Joyce Sweeney, Accounting Branch Chief
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Washington, D.C.  20549

                  Re:      Camco Financial Corporation ("Camco")
                           File No. 000-25196
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Dear Ms. Sweeney:

     The following information is provided in response to your comment letter
dated September 8, 2005, pertaining to Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2004. The response below is keyed to your comment.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures, page 75

1.        During the audit for fiscal year end December 31, 2004, Camco's
     auditors raised a question about Camco's identification and evaluation of
     specific loans in accordance with FAS 114. Camco's policy at the time
     stated that a non-homogeneous loan should be evaluated for purposes of FAS
     114 only when it was delinquent 90 days or more. However, at year-end,
     management was including in the FAS 114 evaluation certain loans that were
     less than 90 days delinquent. Further, when such a loan was identified,
     management utilized an internal analysis to determine the fair value of
     collateral rather than obtaining a third-party appraisal. As a result, it
     was determined by management that more specific procedures should be
     developed to explain the process for identifying and evaluating
     non-homogeneous loans under FAS No. 114.

          Management did not believe it was clear that this issue constituted a
     material weakness. However, after extensive discussions with Camco's
     auditors, management decided to conservatively categorize the issue as a
     material weakness.

          Although management concluded that there was a material weakness in
     Camco's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2004,
     management believes Camco's disclosure controls were effective. While the
     identified material weakness could have caused the allowance for loan
     losses to be materially misstated, it would not have caused the footnote
     disclosure regarding the identification of FAS 114 loans to be materially
     misstated. Therefore, management believes that this issue affected only the
     internal controls, defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 of the Exchange Act
     as the processes designed "to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
     reliability of financial reporting and the

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Ms. Joyce Sweeney
September 23, 2005
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     preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
     with generally accepted accounting principles." Because all impaired loans
     were identified and reported to management, management believes that the
     disclosure controls, defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 as the "controls
     and other procedures . . . that are designed to ensure that information
     required to be disclosed by the issuer in the reports that it files or
     submits . . . is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the
     time periods specified . . .," were effective.

          As a result of the above, Camco does not believe that any amendment to
     its Form 10-K for the period ending December 31, 2004 is required.

       Please contact the undersigned at (740) 435-2055 with any questions you
may have concerning the preceding response.

                                         Very truly yours,

                                         /s/ Mark A. Severson

                                         Mark A. Severson
                                         Chief Financial Officer
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