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Friends Remembered: Impulse No. 81

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Griffin Erdely

Friends Remembered is a collection of tributes to Carnegie heroes, beneficiaries, and others we have lost since the last edition of Impulse. They are listed chronologically by date of passing. …

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Friends Remembered: Impulse No. 80

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Jewels Phraner

Friends Remembered is a collection of tributes to Carnegie heroes, beneficiaries, and others we have lost since the last edition of Impulse. They are listed chronologically by date of passing. …

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Friends Remembered: Impulse No. 79

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Friends Remembered is a collection of tributes to Carnegie heroes, beneficiaries, and others we have lost since the last edition of Impulse. They are listed chronologically by date of passing. …

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Friends Remembered: Jamison S. Koczan

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Jamison S. Koczan, 48, died recently. Koczan received the Carnegie Medal after he rescued a woman from assault in Winter Park, Florida, on June 16, 2014. The woman’s …

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Friends Remembered: Phillip S. McDonald

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Phillip S. McDonald, 77, died on July 25, 2024, in Indianapolis. McDonald was born on June 5, 1947, in Indianapolis to Donald and Hazel McDonald. McDonald received the …

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Friends Remembered: Matthew R. Scribner

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Matthew R. Scribner, 37, died suddenly on July 23, 2024, as the result of a motor vehicle accident. Scribner was born on July 27, 1986, in Newark, New …

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Friends Remembered: Jesse C. Garcia IV

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Jesse C. Garcia IV, 62, died Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at his home in La Vernia, Texas. Garcia was born to Jesse III and Lucia Flores Garcia on …

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Friends Remembered: Garry Brem

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Garry Brem, 91, died on Monday, May 6, 2024. Brem was born to George and Sarah (Heilmann) Brem on July 13, 1932, in Gilroy, California. A U.S. Army …

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Friends Remembered: Jim Roddey

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Dear friend of the Hero Fund, Jim Roddey, 91, died in Pittsburgh on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Roddey was born in 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina. Through his weekly radio …

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Friends Remembered: Norman C. Van Arsdalen

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Norman C. Van Arsdalen, 96, died on Friday March 29, 2024, at a senior living facility in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Seventy years earlier, Van Arsdalen saved teens from …

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Friends Remembered: Harry A. Oiler, JR.

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Harry A. Oiler, Jr., 81, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, died Monday, March 18, 2024, in Florida. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1966 after rescuing a woman …

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Friends Remembered: Robert D. Parr

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Robert D. Parr, 83, died at his home in Knightsville, Indiana, on Thursday, March 20, 2024. Parr received the Carnegie Medal after helping save a man from suffocation …

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Friends Remembered: Lewis Herbert Chase

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Lewis Herbert Chase, 93, died Friday, February 16, 2024. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1981. On May 22, 198, following an accident with a train, a …

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Friends Remembered: John G. Patrick

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero John G. Patrick, 84, died Saturday, February 17, 2024, at University Hospital of Cleveland. Patrick received the Carnegie Medal for Heroism in 1962. At the age of 21, …

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Friends Remembered: Arnold Warren Parrett

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Arnold Warren Parrett, 85, of Hamilton, Kentucky, died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. He was born to Neal and Pearl (Manning) Parrett on Oct. 15, 1938, in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Parrett received …

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Friends Remembered: Donal A. Wallace

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Carnegie Hero Donal A. Wallace, 93, died Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 in Happy Valley, Oregon surrounded by his family. Wallace was born May 25, 1930 in Sonora, California to Arthur …

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Friends Remembered: Dan Sandman

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Hero Fund Commission member Dan Sandman, 75, of Vero Beach, Florida, and Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. He had served on the Commission for 21 years. …

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Friends Remembered: Stanley W. Bowes

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Stanley W. Bowes, 86, died on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, at the Regina General Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bowes was born to Stan and Freda (Olson) Bowes in Walpole, Saskatchewan, …

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Friends Remembered: Steven Alan Tarnoff

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Griffin Erdely

Steven Alan Tarnoff, 73, died on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Morristown, Tennessee. Tarnoff received the Carnegie Medal in 1981 after saving a man from burning after a plane crashed …

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Friends Remembered: Robert H. Blasko

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Griffin Erdely

Robert H. Blasko, 91, of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, died September 27, 2023, at his home. He was born April 3, 1932, in Bradenville, Pennsylvania, a son of the late Andrew …

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