Friends Remembered: Connelly Phelps Parker, Jr.
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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. …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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By Phoebe Porter Conway, Mass. Carnegie Medal awardee Charles T. Porter, Jr.—known by his family as “Talby” and by the outside world as “Charlie”—led an adventurous life. It was often …
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Mary Laverne McDaniel, 89, of Longview, Texas, died March 21, 2017. She was the widow of Carnegie Medal awardee James Young McDaniel, who was fatally wounded while struggling with a …
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William R. Wimble, 84, of Valrico, Fla., died April 24, 2016. He was one of five men awarded the medal in 1963 for that year’s Feb. 14 rescue of the …
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Ruth Ella Thomas, 84, of SeaTac, Wash., died Dec. 21, 2016. She was the widow of Norman J. Thomas, who was posthumously awarded the medal in 1990 in recognition …
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Ronald Leon Diggins, 76, formerly of Milton-Freewater, Ore., died Dec. 26, 2016. Diggins was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1969 for saving a worker from the burning structure of an …
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Margaret Frances Pappalardo Shields, 100, of Woburn, Mass., died Oct. 14, 2016. On Dec. 30, 1929, at the age of 13, she saved a girl from drowning after the girl …
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Henry C. Cameron, 94, of North Little Rock, Ark., died Sept. 16, 2016. Cameron was awarded the medal in 1938 in recognition of his actions of Aug. 21 of the …