Friends remembered: Berman P. Detty
Carnegie Hero Berman P. Detty, 81, of Frankfort, Ohio, died July 16, 2017. On January 7, 1988, Detty responded to the scene of a burning car that had been involved …
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Friends remembered: Ronald W. Miracle
Ronald W. Miracle, 68, of St. Charles, Mo., died May 20, 2017. Miracle was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1991 after he saved a woman from a burning car on …
Carnegie Medal presentation to Steven Michael Paulus
From left, Louisiana First Lady Donna Edwards applauds, as Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards presents the Carnegie Medal to Steven Michael Paulus, while Paulus’ wife Melanie and sons Hunter and Brennan …
Friends remembered: David Anderson Young
David Anderson Young, 70, of Murrayville, Ga., died Dec. 31, 2016. He was awarded the medal in 1967 for attempting to save three Boy Scouts and their leader after leaked …
Friends remembered: Henry L. Hillman
Henry L. Hillman, 98, of Pittsburgh died April 14, 2017. He was a former member of the Commission, having been elected in 1951 and remaining on the board for 24 …
Friends remembered: James R. Ussery, Jr.
James R. Ussery, Jr., 69, of Havelock, N.C., died Feb. 15, 2017. “Bob” was awarded the medal in 1982 to cite his actions of Aug. 15, 1981, by which he …
Friends remembered: Raymond L. Robinson
Raymond L. Robinson, 50, of Chicago, Ill., died Feb. 22, 2017. He was a recent awardee of the medal, having received it last August in recognition of his heroic actions …
Friends remembered: Robert D. Reinhart, Jr.
Robert D. Reinhart, Jr., 61, of East Petersburg, Pa., died Feb. 19, 2017. He was awarded the medal in 1997 for rescuing a woman from a man who was stabbing …
Friends remembered: Jack Markowitz
Jack Markowitz, 85, of Pittsburgh died April 4, 2017. He was a friend of the Commission, having written A Walk on the Crust of Hell (The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, …
Friends remembered: Mary Laverne McDaniel
Mary Laverne McDaniel, 89, of Longview, Texas, died March 21, 2017. She was the widow of Carnegie Medal awardee James Young McDaniel, who was fatally wounded while struggling with a …
Friends remembered: William R. Wimble
William R. Wimble, 84, of Valrico, Fla., died April 24, 2016. He was one of five men awarded the medal in 1963 for that year’s Feb. 14 rescue of the …
Friends remembered: Ruth Ella Thomas
Ruth Ella Thomas, 84, of SeaTac, Wash., died Dec. 21, 2016. She was the widow of Norman J. Thomas, who was posthumously awarded the medal in 1990 in recognition …
Friends remembered: Mary Frances Pappalardo Shields
Margaret Frances Pappalardo Shields, 100, of Woburn, Mass., died Oct. 14, 2016. On Dec. 30, 1929, at the age of 13, she saved a girl from drowning after the girl …
Friends remembered: Henry C. Cameron
Henry C. Cameron, 94, of North Little Rock, Ark., died Sept. 16, 2016. Cameron was awarded the medal in 1938 in recognition of his actions of Aug. 21 of the …
Friends remembered: Clementine U. Brown
Clementine U. Brown, 89, of McArthur, Calif., died July 22, 2016. She was the widow of Roland C. Brown, who was awarded the Carnegie Medal posthumously for his actions of …
Friends remembered: Waymon L. Halsell
Waymon L. Halsell, 87, of Bakersfield, Calif., died July 11. He was awarded the medal in 1960 in recognition of his helping to save a man from suffocation after a …
Friends remembered: Earl L. Zimmerman
Earl L. Zimmerman, 87, of Williamsville, N.Y., died Feb. 26, 2016. As Zimmerman, 23, was pulling the unconscious driver of a wrecked truck from its cab on March 15, 1951, …
Friends remembered: Hershal B. Sargent
Hershal B. Sargent, 87, of Gahanna, Ohio, died Dec. 20, 2015. Sargent was one of five men who were each awarded the medal in 1967 for their heroic actions of …
Friends remembered: Joseph R. Sowers
Joseph R. Sowers, 96, of Kingston, Tenn., died Dec. 8, 2015. At age 23 in 1942, Sowers, then an automobile mechanic, saved an 8-year-old boy from drowning in the flooded …
Friends remembered: Marvin E. Panch
Marvin E. Panch, 89, of Port Orange, Fla., died Dec. 31, 2015. One of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers, Panch was involved in a fiery crash at Daytona International Speedway on …