Tag: friends remembered

  Earl C. Moorman, 79, of Auburn, Illinois, died Saturday, March 30, 2019, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. In 2015, Carnegie Hero Ashley Marie Aldridge pulled Moorman from …

Brenda S. Maw, 70, of Easley, South Carolina, died Saturday, March 5, 2022. In 1982, Maw received the Carnegie Medal for saving a police officer from being shot. Maw, at …

  Joseph W. Alderman, 90, of Winchester, Virginia, died Saturday, June 4, 2022, after an arduous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. In 1966, Alderman, then a 35-year-old engineer-geologist, saved a 16-year-old …

Kristian F. Falkenstein, 44, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, died Monday, June 27, 2022. In 2017, Falkenstein, then a 39-year-old university development officer, responded to a 32-year-old struggling in the Atlantic Ocean …

  Ryan B. Phillips, 55, of St. Petersburg, Florida, died Wednesday, June 29, 2022. In 2011, Phillips, then a 43-year-old construction worker, saved his 3-year-old neighbor from burning in her …

James Walter Polowy, 74, of Long Grove, Illinois, died Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. In 1980, Polowy repeatedly dived into the Miami Canal in Hialeah, Florida, to save a 49-year-old woman …

Randall ODell Williams, 58, of Saginaw, Michigan, died Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. In 1991, Williams, then 28, a newspaper delivery truck driver, was in a Saginaw neighborhood and saw a …

R.A. Mills, 90, of Albany, Oregon, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. While on a cycling trip in 1988, Mills rescued a 74-year-old …

Earl E. Cummins, 90, formerly of Fairhope, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, April 17, 2022. In 2004, Cummins saved a 76-year-old woman from burning after fire broke out in her Hyndman, Pennsylvania, …

Ernest Lee Krueger, 72, of Spokane, Washington, died Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, after a tough battle with stomach cancer, with his beloved dog Piper by his side. Krueger was born …

John Garner Dicken, Jr., 79, of Goshen, Indiana, died Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, at home. Dicken received the Carnegie Medal for saving a 64-year-old woman whose car was stuck on …

Gerard Jansen, 89, of Guelph, Ontario, died Jan. 11, 2022, at Hospice Wellington. Born in Zevenaar, Netherlands, Feb. 10, 1932, to Frank and Dina Jansen, Jansen immigrated to Canada in …

Theresa E. Leduc, 93, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Sarasota, Florida. On March 13, 1964, Leduc, a 37-year-old homemaker, was driving in Cumberland Hill, Rhode …

Jason Mitchell Norman, 40, died Tuesday, July 6, 2021, at home in Ronda, North Carolina. On Oct. 26, 2009, Norman, 28, heating and cooling systems installer, was driving in a …

Roy Hart, 81, died Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at his home in Dos Palos, California. On June 23, 1995, Hart, 55, contractor, was traveling on a highway in Dos Palos, …

John H. Brinkman, 84, of Mason City, Iowa, died Saturday, April 3, 2021, at Mercy One North Iowa Hospice surrounded by his family. When Brinkman was 16, he helped save …

Shane Douglas Burger, 46, of Pavilion, New York, died Monday, June 21, 2021, at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, after battling a lengthy illness. Burger received the Carnegie …

James E. Spruill, 86, of Williamston, North Carolina, died Sunday, July, 11, 2021, at his home. In 1957, Spruill was named a Carnegie Hero for saving 40-year-old Josephine R. Cox, …