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Friends Remembered: Charles S. Harris

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

Carnegie Hero Charles S. Harris, 81, died Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at his home in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Harris was a renowned Civil War historian and author, specifically known for finding …

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Friends Remembered: Donna Cortese-Munday

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

Donna Cortese-Munday, 76, of Garineau, Quebec, died Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. She was the widow of Carnegie Hero Mario D. Cortese, and a beneficiary of the commission for 34 years. …

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Friends Remembered: Melvin G. Kauffman

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

Melvin G. Kauffman, 91, of Pulaski, Pennsylvania, died Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Born Aug. 13, 1931, to Lewis A. and Florence Mayberry Kauffman, he lived his entire 91 years in …

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Friends Remembered: Louis R. Zabinski

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

Louis R. Zabinski, 90, of East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, at Allegheny Valley Hospital in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. Born Oct. 3, 1932, in East Vandergrift, he was …

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Friends Remembered: Michael D. Croft

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

Carnegie Hero Michael D. Croft, 77, of Cheektowaga, New York, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Croft was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1986 after he rescued an 84-year-old man from …

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Friends Remembered: Joshua Stewart Wright

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jewels Phraner

Carnegie Hero Joshua Stewart Wright, 42, of Dahlonega, Georgia, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Wright received the Carnegie Medal in 2018, after saving a 2-year-old girl from burning after the …

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Friends Remembered: Bruce A. Baxter

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Bruce A. Baxter, about 72, died Wednesday, June 22, 2022. In 2008, Baxter, then 58, rescued an elderly woman from burning in Petaluma, California. The 87-year-old woman was in the …

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Friends Remembered: Ronald L. Baliko

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Ronald L. Baliko, 83, of Brown City, Michigan, died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. He was born and raised in Detroit. He married Susan Wilder on March 5, 1977, and retired …

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Friends Remembered: Earl C. Moorman

Earl Moorman

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  Earl C. Moorman, 79, of Auburn, Illinois, died Saturday, March 30, 2019, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. In 2015, Carnegie Hero Ashley Marie Aldridge pulled Moorman from …

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Friends Remembered: Brenda S. Maw

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Brenda S. Maw, 70, of Easley, South Carolina, died Saturday, March 5, 2022. In 1982, Maw received the Carnegie Medal for saving a police officer from being shot. Maw, at …

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Friends Remembered: Joseph W. Alderman

Joseph Alderman

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  Joseph W. Alderman, 90, of Winchester, Virginia, died Saturday, June 4, 2022, after an arduous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. In 1966, Alderman, then a 35-year-old engineer-geologist, saved a 16-year-old …

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Friends Remembered: Kristian F. Falkenstein

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

Kristian F. Falkenstein, 44, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, died Monday, June 27, 2022. In 2017, Falkenstein, then a 39-year-old university development officer, responded to a 32-year-old struggling in the Atlantic Ocean …

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Friends Remembered: Ryan B. Phillips

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Colin Cavada

  Ryan B. Phillips, 55, of St. Petersburg, Florida, died Wednesday, June 29, 2022. In 2011, Phillips, then a 43-year-old construction worker, saved his 3-year-old neighbor from burning in her …

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Friends remembered: Andre J. Ledbetter

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Eli Lambiotte

Andre J. Ledbetter, 75, of Pahrump, Nevada, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at home. He was surrounded by family and his beloved dog. When he was 18, Ledbetter saved a …

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Friends remembered: James Walter Polowy

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Eli Lambiotte

James Walter Polowy, 74, of Long Grove, Illinois, died Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. In 1980, Polowy repeatedly dived into the Miami Canal in Hialeah, Florida, to save a 49-year-old woman …

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Friends remembered: Randall ODell Williams

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Eli Lambiotte

Randall ODell Williams, 58, of Saginaw, Michigan, died Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. In 1991, Williams, then 28, a newspaper delivery truck driver, was in a Saginaw neighborhood and saw a …

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Friends remembered: R. A. Mills

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Eli Lambiotte

R.A. Mills, 90, of Albany, Oregon, died on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. While on a cycling trip in 1988, Mills rescued a 74-year-old …

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Friends remembered: Earl E. Cummins

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Eli Lambiotte

Earl E. Cummins, 90, formerly of Fairhope, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, April 17, 2022. In 2004, Cummins saved a 76-year-old woman from burning after fire broke out in her Hyndman, Pennsylvania, …

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Friends remembered: James M. Walton

James M. Walton

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Abby Marie

James M. Walton, 91, of Gulfstream, Florida, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, surrounded by his family. Walton served on the board of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission from 1968 to …

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Friends remembered: Ernest Lee Krueger

Ernest Lee Krueger

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Abby Marie

Ernest Lee Krueger, 72, of Spokane, Washington, died Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, after a tough battle with stomach cancer, with his beloved dog Piper by his side. Krueger was born …

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