Carnegie Hero Liam Bernard, center, was honored Dec. 6 at Mi’kmawey School in St. Peter’s, N.S. Potolek First Nation Chief Wilbert Marshall, left, and Carnegie Hero Fund Commission board member …
Media gather as Carnegie Hero Connor N. Devine, center, accepts the Carnegie Medal presented to him by Warwick (R.I.) Mayor Joseph Solomon at a Sept. 14 ceremony held in the …
From left, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Carnegie Hero Kristian F. Falkenstein, and Hero Fund President Eric P. Zahren examine the Carnegie Medal presented to Falkenstein at an Oct. 16 ceremony …
Carnegie heroes Brian R. Gadwell, left, and Steven A. Rauser, right, hold the Carnegie Medal while standing with Detroit Police Chief James Craig. The two Detroit police offiers were presented …
Carnegie Hero David Moen poses with the woman he saved, Kymberly A. Dominguez, after he was presented the Carnegie Medal by Orion Township (Mich.) Supervisor Chris Barnett at the township’s …
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, left, presents Carnegie Hero Catherine Kinyua with the Carnegie Medal on Nov. 19 in Walsh’s office. Kinyua helped save a 32-year-old man from drowning in …
Constables Stephanie L. Pelley, left, and Charley Torres, right, received the Carnegie Medal from Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Chief Jospeh A. Boland, center, on Oct. 3 in St. John’s, N.F. Boland …
Brevard County (Fla.) Commissioner Kristine Isnardi, left, holds a resolution in recognition of posthumous Carnegie Medal awardee Delbert G. Blare. Next to her, from left, is Carnegie Hero Fund volunteer …
Mount Clemens (Mich.) Mayor Barb Dempsey, far left, holds up the Carnegie Medal during a Sept. 17 ceremony in which Carnegie heroes Joshua Aaron Traylor and Ron Allen Elko, right, …
Airport Director Craig A. Williams, left, presents the Carnegie Medal to Carnegie Hero Richard R. Krul at the Bishop International Airport’s authority board meeting Sept. 25 held at the airport …
Missouri state Trooper Joshua Hughes, St. Charles County (Mo.) Ambulance District paramedic Michael Buechner, Carnegie Hero Jennifer E. Emo, Hero Fund volunteer presenter Mark Petzel, St. Charles County Ambulance District …
Carnegie Hero Michael Eugene Chestnut, left, receiving the Carnegie Medal from Bracken County (Ky.) Judge-Executive Earl Bush at the county’s board meeting on Nov. 28 at the Old Courthouse in …
Carnegie Hero James Williams, center, received the Carnegie Medal from Green Bay (Wis.) Mayor James J. Schmitt during a council meeting on Oct. 16. Williams told Schmitt that it “still …
Carnegie Hero Michael E. Surrell, Sr., left, was presented the Carnegie Medal by Commission President Eric P. Zahren at a private ceremony held Oct, 17 at Union & Finch Restaurant …
Some critics thot[sic] I proposed to stimulate heroism, but now nothing I’ve done is so popular. It was time the Heroes of Peace had recognition. — From a private letter …
Turner Lagpacan said he was grateful for his near-decade of involvement in the Boy Scouts when in April 2015, he encountered a fiery highway crash in Mulhall, Okla. Lagpacan, who …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
