Friends Remembered: Jamison S. Koczan
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Carnegie Hero Jamison S. Koczan, 48, died recently. Koczan received the Carnegie Medal after he rescued a woman from assault in Winter Park, Florida, on June 16, 2014. The woman’s …
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Carnegie Hero Jamison S. Koczan, 48, died recently. Koczan received the Carnegie Medal after he rescued a woman from assault in Winter Park, Florida, on June 16, 2014. The woman’s …
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Carnegie Hero Phillip S. McDonald, 77, died on July 25, 2024, in Indianapolis. McDonald was born on June 5, 1947, in Indianapolis to Donald and Hazel McDonald. McDonald received the …
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Carnegie Hero Matthew R. Scribner, 37, died suddenly on July 23, 2024, as the result of a motor vehicle accident. Scribner was born on July 27, 1986, in Newark, New …
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Carnegie Hero Jesse C. Garcia IV, 62, died Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at his home in La Vernia, Texas. Garcia was born to Jesse III and Lucia Flores Garcia on …
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Carnegie Hero Garry Brem, 91, died on Monday, May 6, 2024. Brem was born to George and Sarah (Heilmann) Brem on July 13, 1932, in Gilroy, California. A U.S. Army …
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Dear friend of the Hero Fund, Jim Roddey, 91, died in Pittsburgh on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Roddey was born in 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina. Through his weekly radio …
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Carnegie Hero Norman C. Van Arsdalen, 96, died on Friday March 29, 2024, at a senior living facility in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Seventy years earlier, Van Arsdalen saved teens from …
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Carnegie Hero Harry A. Oiler, Jr., 81, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, died Monday, March 18, 2024, in Florida. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1966 after rescuing a woman …
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Carnegie Hero Robert D. Parr, 83, died at his home in Knightsville, Indiana, on Thursday, March 20, 2024. Parr received the Carnegie Medal after helping save a man from suffocation …
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Carnegie Hero Lewis Herbert Chase, 93, died Friday, February 16, 2024. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1981. On May 22, 198, following an accident with a train, a …
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Carnegie Hero John G. Patrick, 84, died Saturday, February 17, 2024, at University Hospital of Cleveland. Patrick received the Carnegie Medal for Heroism in 1962. At the age of 21, …
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Arnold Warren Parrett, 85, of Hamilton, Kentucky, died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. He was born to Neal and Pearl (Manning) Parrett on Oct. 15, 1938, in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Parrett received …
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Carnegie Hero Donal A. Wallace, 93, died Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 in Happy Valley, Oregon surrounded by his family. Wallace was born May 25, 1930 in Sonora, California to Arthur …
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Hero Fund Commission member Dan Sandman, 75, of Vero Beach, Florida, and Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. He had served on the Commission for 21 years. …
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Stanley W. Bowes, 86, died on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, at the Regina General Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bowes was born to Stan and Freda (Olson) Bowes in Walpole, Saskatchewan, …
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Steven Alan Tarnoff, 73, died on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Morristown, Tennessee. Tarnoff received the Carnegie Medal in 1981 after saving a man from burning after a plane crashed …
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Robert H. Blasko, 91, of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, died September 27, 2023, at his home. He was born April 3, 1932, in Bradenville, Pennsylvania, a son of the late Andrew …
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Carnegie Hero Odis Lee Jones, Jr., 84, died Sunday, May 28, 2023, in Okolona, Mississippi. Jones, then a 27-year-old conveyer operator living in Shannon, Mississippi, received the Carnegie Medal after …
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Carnegie Hero William Harold Denzer, 72, died Sunday, July 2, 2023, in Germantown, Ohio. He was born Jan. 29, 1951, to William and Marilyn Denzer in Newark, Ohio. Denzer received …
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Carnegie Hero Dennis J. Myers, 71, died Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Leipsic, Ohio, surrounded by his family. Myers was born to Norman and Helen Myers on Dec. 20, 1951, …