Carnegie Hero Herbert A. Moran was a quiet man, according to his adult daughter, Kristen Solari, of Escalon, California. It wasn’t until after his death that she discovered the Carnegie …
James R. Seitz, 51, of Denver, North Carolina, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, after a month-long battle with pneumonia and COVID-19. Seitz received the Carnegie Medal in 2001 for the …
James Vernon, 81, of Morton, Illinois died Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Vernon was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017 for saving …
Ricky Don Bailey, 63, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at his Clinton, Louisiana, home surrounded by family. His death came after a long struggle with dementia. When Bailey was 31 …
Ronald Larsen, 81, of Elko, Nevada, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. When Larsen was 57, he rescued 3-year-old Nicholas R. Nolte from burning in his family’s one-story home on Jan. …
Herbert A. Moran, 66, of Arnold, California, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California. When Moran was just 24 years old, he rescued 16-year-old Stacy …
Gary F. Lamberty, 70, of Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Nearly 30 years earlier, Lamberty was awarded the Carnegie Medal for helping save two individuals from a …
Mark James Hoffman, 56, of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, at Cedar Crest Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hoffman was named a Carnegie hero in 2015 for helping …
William S. Caswell, 84, of Austin, Kentucky, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, with his family at his side after a lengthy battle with cancer. In 1968, Caswell was awarded the …
Yuen Kong Won, 84, of Roseville, California, died Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, due to complications from a stroke. In 2004 Won was awarded the Carnegie Medal for rescuing a 43-year-old …
John William Oplinger, 72, of Wapwallopen, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Oplinger received the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for rescuing a 15-year-old boy …
Charles E. Britt, 96, of Norfolk, Virginia, died Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, succumbing to injuries he received in a recent fall. In 1998 Britt was awarded the Carnegie Medal for …
Ronald Lee McKeown, 75, of Belton, Missouri, died Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, surrounded by family at home. McKeown was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1966 for attempting to save fellow …
Kenneth L. Gerondale, 91, of Anchorage, Alaska, died Friday, June 12, 2020. Nearly 70 years earlier, Gerondale was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving the 24-year-old pilot of a jet-propelled …
Thomas L. Edgell, 73, of East Liverpool, Ohio died Monday, June 29, 2020 at the St. Mary’s Alzheimer’s Center. Edgell was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1980 after carrying a …
John M. Perritt, Jr., 69, of Fleming Island, Florida, died suddenly on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. In 1970, Perritt was awarded the Carnegie Medal for attempting to save a 19-year-old …
Clarence Q. Urbain, 95, of Epworth, Iowa, died Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, at Bethany Home in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1960, Urbain was named a Carnegie hero for helping to rescue …
Todd D. Clausen, 49, of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2020, after a three-year battle with stage-four pancreatic cancer. In 2016, Clausen was awarded the Carnegie Medal for …
Ronald Norman Grant, 70, of Victoria, British Columbia, died Friday, July 31, 2020 in Ontario. Grant was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1965 for saving a 2-year-old girl from being …
Wallace Earl Clendenen, 98, of Knoxville, Tennessee, died Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Clendenen was named a Carnegie hero in 1942 for saving a 20-year-old student from drowning in Tellico Plains, …
