Friends Remembered: David J. Gretkowski
David J. Gretkowski, 54, of Burlington, Vt., died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, of glioblastoma. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1989 after he saved a 15-yearold girl from drowning …
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Friends Remembered: Edmund L. Zernach
Edmund L. Zernach, 81, of Peachtree City, Ga., died Saturday, July 28, 2018. More than 60 years earlier, he helped save a 14-year-old boy from falling off the edge of …
Friends Remembered: Evelyn M. Neininger
Evelyn M. Larsen, 71, of Minden, Nev., died Thursday, June 21, 2018 at her home. On Dec. 31, 1964, at the age of 17, she saved four children from their …
Friends Remembered: V.E. Kilpatrick, Jr.
V.E. Kilpatrick, Jr., 74, of Brinkley, Ark., died Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Little Rock, Ark. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1969 after he saved a boy from …
Friends Remembered: Christina York
Christina York, 81, of Presque Isle, Maine, died Thursday, April 12, 2018. York was the widow of Herbert Daniel York, who died in 1977 attempting to save a 14-year-old boy …
Friends Remembered: Lawrence Wm. Haywiser
Lawrence Wm. Haywiser, 89, of Baldwin Borough, Pa., died Monday, May 21, 2018. Haywiser worked for 42 years for the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission until his retirement. He was hired …
Friends Remembered: Alejandro J. Muñoz
Alejandro J. Muñoz, 45, of Fontana, Calif., died Wednesday, May 2, 2018. In 2004, he helped rescue a 46-year-old woman from a burning sport utility vehicle in San Lucas, Calif. …
Friends Remembered: Graham W. Fath
Graham W. Fath, 16, of Schaumburg, Ill., died Sunday, March 11, 2018. He, with his brother and two friends, was awarded the Carnegie Medal for, at the age 11, for …
Friends Remembered: Gerald W. Quigley
Gerald W. Quigley, 73, of Grenada, Calif., died Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal 46 years earlier after helping save a firefighter from suffocation in a …
Friends Remembered: John M. Greig
John M. Greig, 83, of Estherville, Iowa, died Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at the Mayo Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus in Rochester, Minn. A Carnegie hero, on Jan. 26, 1966, Greig …
Friends Remembered: Curtis Ray New
Curtis Ray New, 91, of Anderson, Ind., died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1977 after rescuing a 50-year-old woman from her burning home in …
Friends Remembered: Connelly Phelps Parker, Jr.
Connelly Phelps Parker, Jr., 59, of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017, after a 20-month battle with Glioblastoma. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal for an Aug. …
Friends Remembered: Edsel G. Lorenzen
Edsel G. Lorenzen, 88, of Radcliffe, Iowa, died Nov. 16, 2017, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa. Lorenzen received the Carnegie Medal in 2006 after, at the age …
New calligraphy displayed in Pittsburgh’s Koppers Building
As part of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission’s recent milestone of recognizing 10,000 civilian heroes, two pieces of historic art were unveiled at the Power of One event held …
Carnegie hero organizes community Cruise-In and Car Show year after year
James Raymond Garvey, Sr., became a Carnegie hero for pulling a man 50 years his junior from a crashed and burning sport-utility vehicle in November 2016. But the 78-year-old …
Board notes: Memories of heroic acts most vivid with rescuers
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Once the Carnegie Hero Fund has identified, investigated, and awarded the Carnegie Medal for a heroic act, it works in many ways …
To the Hero Fund
On July 18, 2016, I observed a multiple-vehicle traffic collision on a busy highway that resulted in two vehicles becoming engulfed in flames. Shortly after the collision occurred I was …
Carnegie Hero rebuilds toy company AJ Play
Jacob Scott Jones’s dream was interrupted by life. But when his new routine was violently interrupted, Jones was inspired to resurrect his dream: Building his own toy company. Jones, 39, …
Carnegie Hero William E. Ramirez becomes U.S. citizen
Carnegie Hero William E. Ramirez, 49, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was among 100 people who became U.S. citizens at an Aug. 17, 2018, ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration …
3-year-old shares with classmates ‘big penny’ of great-grandfather, Francis Traill Hodges
Grace Helen Hodges Chamberlin poses with her great-grandfather’s Carnegie Medal. Carnegie Hero Francis Traill Hodges was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1932 after he saved a 23-year-old man and attempted …