Roll of Honor vol. 1 available online
The Hero Fund is proud to announce that the first volume of its Roll of Honor is available to view online. The electronic PDF file mirrors the tome, published in …
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Officer John Smith,
2019 Awardee
Author: Jewels Phraner
John D. Phelps
A 60-year-old public commuter bus driver in Tampa, Florida, was sprayed with pepper spray by an agitated man that had just entered the bus on Nov. 19, 2019. Using a …
Wendy Winters
After a man wielding a pump-action shotgun shot through the locked, front door of an Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper office and shot a sales assistant, severely wounding her, he proceeded toward …
Jonathan Stein-Palmiere
Jonathan Stein-Palmiere, a 20-year-old apprentice carpenter of Calgary, Alberta, died May 31, 2019, after entering Lake Windermere near Windermere, British Columbia, to rescue a 10-year-old girl struggling in the water. …
Jason Aaron Strunk, Seth Robert Bond, and Leslie E. Shaffer
A 23-year-old mother and her three young children were walking along an Akron, Ohio, sidewalk on June 16, 2019, when the mother’s ex-partner, armed with a handgun, approached them and …
Christopher F.N. Schultz
After his 3-year-old son fell into a 20-feet-deep channel on June 15, 2019, near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Christopher F.N. Schultz jumped in after him, fully clothed. Schultz, a 31-year-old construction …
Benjamin M. Blostein
A fishing trip could have turned deadly if it weren’t for the quick actions of Benjamin M. Blostein, a 30-year-old commercial roofer of Royal Oak, Michigan. On June 6, 2019, …
Harmanjeet Singh Gill
Harmanjeet Singh Gill, a 20-year-old truck driver from Brampton, Ontario, was driving Aug. 29, 2018, in Brampton when he saw a violent crash in which an SUV struck several vehicles …
Robert J. Whitley and James W. Whitley II
Two Hannibal, Missouri, cousins responded to a deadly boat accident on the Mississippi River near Hull, Illinois, on Aug. 3, 2019. Robert J. Whitley, a 38-year-old construction worker, and James …
Robert Lawson and Jeffrey Johnson
After a July 11, 2019, highway crash in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, involving a semi-truck and several other vehicles, a 64-year-old woman was pinned in the driver’s seat of her burning, …
David A. Dulkis and Darren Cox
David A. Dulkis and Darren Cox, nearby motorists who saw a burning SUV at the bottom of an embankment responded to the Feb. 3, 2018, accident in Corona, California. The …
Stacey Redmon
A 48-year-old man died June 21, 2019, attempting to save a boy from drowning in dangerous waters in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City Beach, Florida. …
Calvin Parham
As Calvin Parham, 44, left his Knightstown, Indiana, home for work as a forklift operator during the early morning hours of Jan. 11, 2019, he smelled smoke and spotted the …
From the Archives: 16-year-old girl saves elderly neighbor in 1965 Ontario building blaze
In the early morning of an overcast Nov. 9, 1965, B. Bedelia Faeder, 73, was asleep in her third-floor apartment on King Street in Brockville, Ontario. The stone and brick …
Fusako M. Petrus
A retired clerk from North Highlands, Calif., Fusako M. Petrus, 86, was walking with her 61-year-old friend at dawn April 26, 2017, on a North Highlands school track when an …
Luis Alberto Mendoza
The night of May 24, 2019, after cook Luis Alberto Mendoza, 29, now of Loves Park, Ill., awoke to discover rapidly spreading flames inside his Beloit, Wis., home. Flames outside …
Matthew M. Hanna
Matthew M. Hanna, a 33-year-old, Sun City, Ariz., motorcycle mechanics student, was at his grandmother’s Sun City house, when he became alerted to the June 16, 2019, fire in a …
Vladmir Orelus
On Christmas Day 2018, Vladmir Orelus, a 28-year-old dental assistant, died attempting to rescue his 70-year-old father from their burning, Avon, Mass., home. Orelus, his wife, two sons, and an …
James Glorioso, Jr.
A 42-year-old actor from Amsterdam, N.Y., ran up an Atlantic City, N.J., beach, obtained a small boogie board, and ran into the water after he became aware of a 58-year-old …
Albert Madrid
Two young sisters, about 7 and 4, remained inside their Highland, Calif., mobile home after it caught fire March 9, 2019, and others in the home had exited. A neighbor …