Friends Remembered: Leslie M. Hough
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Leslie M. Hough, 64, of Selden, N.Y., died Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Patchogue, N.Y. Hough was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1999 for rescuing a 31-year-old woman from a …
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Leslie M. Hough, 64, of Selden, N.Y., died Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Patchogue, N.Y. Hough was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1999 for rescuing a 31-year-old woman from a …
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Duane E. Vanlanham, 59, of Saginaw, Mich., died Friday, June 14, 2019. Vanlanham was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2010 for rescuing a woman from attacking dogs. He immediately ran …
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Gladys Mae Willis, 96, of Little Rock, Ark., died Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Willis was the widow of Ernest Willis, who died in 1967 attempting to save an 8-year-old boy …
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Marion J. Wheeler, Jr., 67, of Gasden, Ala., died Friday, March 1, 2019. After rescuing a woman from assault in 1996, he was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1997. Seated …
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Vernon R. Hughes, 83, of Yreka, Calif., died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. Vernon joined the Air Force in 1954 and served in Guam until 1957. He married in 1960 and …
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Jean B.J. Vautour, 85, of Ottawa, Ont., died Friday, Sep. 14, 2018. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1964 for helping save two workmen from drowning in a hydroelectric …
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Vincent Santaniello, 58, of Dover, Ohio, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, in his home following a year-long, hard-fought illness. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017, for one year …
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Douglas R. Chambers, 75, of Oakmont, Pa., died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. Chambers was hired by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in 2002 as acting managing director and immediately assumed …
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Mary Austill Samford, 88, of Opelika, Ala., died Sunday, Sept.9, 2018, of Alzheimer’s. She was awarded the Carnegie Medal at the age of 9, when she rescued another 9-year-old girl …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …