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 …
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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 …
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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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As part of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission’s recent milestone of recognizing 10,000 civilian heroes, two pieces of historic art were unveiled at the Power of One event held …
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James Raymond Garvey, Sr., became a Carnegie hero for pulling a man 50 years his junior from a crashed and burning sport-utility vehicle in November 2016. But the 78-year-old …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Once the Carnegie Hero Fund has identified, investigated, and awarded the Carnegie Medal for a heroic act, it works in many ways …
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On July 18, 2016, I observed a multiple-vehicle traffic collision on a busy highway that resulted in two vehicles becoming engulfed in flames. Shortly after the collision occurred I was …
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Jacob Scott Jones’s dream was interrupted by life. But when his new routine was violently interrupted, Jones was inspired to resurrect his dream: Building his own toy company. Jones, 39, …
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Carnegie Hero William E. Ramirez, 49, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was among 100 people who became U.S. citizens at an Aug. 17, 2018, ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration …
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Grace Helen Hodges Chamberlin poses with her great-grandfather’s Carnegie Medal. Carnegie Hero Francis Traill Hodges was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1932 after he saved a 23-year-old man and attempted …
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Once celebrated as the “bravest woman in America,” Ida Lewis, the famed lighthouse keeper, earned a multitude of prestigious honors for a series of water rescues in Newport, R.I. And …
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Earl Gulick is absent from the roll of Carnegie Heroes, but his bravery as a 14-year-old in a 1902 water rescue once led to the mistaken, widespread belief that he …
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Sequim (Wash.) Mayor Dennis Smith, right, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Jason Alan Doig, left, at a city council meeting held June 25, 2018, in Sequim. Doig, a …
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Carnegie Hero Robert Lee Thornton, Jr., holds the Carnegie Medal on June 28, 2018, after a presentation at Center Line (Mich.) City Hall. Presenting the award, from left, were Center …
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Rockwall (Texas) Mayor Jim Pruitt, left, and U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, right, presented Carnegie Hero Frank B. Conselman, center, the Carnegie Medal at a ceremony held at a Rotary Club …
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Colorado Springs (Colo.) Mayor John Suthers, left, presented the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Ross A. Johnson at a June 26, 2018, city council meeting. Johnson, of Colorado Springs, received …
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Carnegie Hero Joshua K. Watt, center, was presented the Carnegie Medal on June 22, 2018, at the Edmonson County (Ky.) Courthouse. With Watt, from left, are Brownsville (Ky.) police Chief …
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From left, Milford (Conn.) Mayor Ben Blake stands with Diane O’Rourke and husband, Carnegie Hero John Gerard O’Rourke after presenting the Carnegie Medal to O’Rourke for his rescue of a …
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From left, Carnegie Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren, Carnegie heroes Zachary J. Corey and Karen Marie Mallon, and Taylor Blackmore, from Rep. Jack Bergman’s office, pose after Zahren presented …