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 …
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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 …
Friends Remembered: George E. Phillips
George E. Phillips, 82, of Vermilion, Ohio, died Sunday, June 11, 2017, at his home after a brief illness. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1970 for helping save …
Friends remembered: Berman P. Detty
Carnegie Hero Berman P. Detty, 81, of Frankfort, Ohio, died July 16, 2017. On January 7, 1988, Detty responded to the scene of a burning car that had been involved …
Friends remembered: Ronald W. Miracle
Ronald W. Miracle, 68, of St. Charles, Mo., died May 20, 2017. Miracle was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1991 after he saved a woman from a burning car on …
Friends remembered: Philip Contreras
Philip Contreras, 55, of Riverside, Calif., died July 27, 2017. Contreras was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1988 after he saved a woman from a burning car on August 27, …
Friends remembered: David Anderson Young
David Anderson Young, 70, of Murrayville, Ga., died Dec. 31, 2016. He was awarded the medal in 1967 for attempting to save three Boy Scouts and their leader after leaked …
Friends remembered: Henry L. Hillman
Henry L. Hillman, 98, of Pittsburgh died April 14, 2017. He was a former member of the Commission, having been elected in 1951 and remaining on the board for 24 …
Friends remembered: James R. Ussery, Jr.
James R. Ussery, Jr., 69, of Havelock, N.C., died Feb. 15, 2017. “Bob” was awarded the medal in 1982 to cite his actions of Aug. 15, 1981, by which he …
Friends remembered: Raymond L. Robinson
Raymond L. Robinson, 50, of Chicago, Ill., died Feb. 22, 2017. He was a recent awardee of the medal, having received it last August in recognition of his heroic actions …
Friends remembered: Robert D. Reinhart, Jr.
Robert D. Reinhart, Jr., 61, of East Petersburg, Pa., died Feb. 19, 2017. He was awarded the medal in 1997 for rescuing a woman from a man who was stabbing …
Friends remembered: Jack Markowitz
Jack Markowitz, 85, of Pittsburgh died April 4, 2017. He was a friend of the Commission, having written A Walk on the Crust of Hell (The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, …
Friends remembered: Ross G. Guy
Ross G. Guy, 67, of Riverside, Calif., died Jan. 14, 2017. Guy was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2003 for his actions of Jan. 10, 2002, by which he helped …