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Tag: friends remembered

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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Friends remembered: John Garner Dicken, Jr.

John Garner Dicken, Jr.

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Abby Marie

John Garner Dicken, Jr., 79, of Goshen, Indiana, died Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, at home. Dicken received the Carnegie Medal for saving a 64-year-old woman whose car was stuck on …

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Friends remembered: Gerard Jansen

Gerard Jansen

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Abby Marie

Gerard Jansen, 89, of Guelph, Ontario, died Jan. 11, 2022, at Hospice Wellington. Born in Zevenaar, Netherlands, Feb. 10, 1932, to Frank and Dina Jansen, Jansen immigrated to Canada in …

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Friends remembered: Theresa E. Leduc

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Abby Marie

Theresa E. Leduc, 93, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Sarasota, Florida. On March 13, 1964, Leduc, a 37-year-old homemaker, was driving in Cumberland Hill, Rhode …

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Friends remembered: Jason Mitchell Norman

Jason Mitchell Norman

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Abby Marie

Jason Mitchell Norman, 40, died Tuesday, July 6, 2021, at home in Ronda, North Carolina. On Oct. 26, 2009, Norman, 28, heating and cooling systems installer, was driving in a …

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Friends remembered: Roy Hart

Roy Hart

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Abby Marie

Roy Hart, 81, died Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at his home in Dos Palos, California. On June 23, 1995, Hart, 55, contractor, was traveling on a highway in Dos Palos, …

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Friends remembered: John H. Brinkman

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Abby Marie

John H. Brinkman, 84, of Mason City, Iowa, died Saturday, April 3, 2021, at Mercy One North Iowa Hospice surrounded by his family. When Brinkman was 16, he helped save …

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Friends remembered: Shane Douglas Burger

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Abby Marie

Shane Douglas Burger, 46, of Pavilion, New York, died Monday, June 21, 2021, at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, after battling a lengthy illness. Burger received the Carnegie …

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Friends remembered: James E. Spruill

James E. Spruill

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Abby Marie

James E. Spruill, 86, of Williamston, North Carolina, died Sunday, July, 11, 2021, at his home. In 1957, Spruill was named a Carnegie Hero for saving 40-year-old Josephine R. Cox, …

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Daughter discovers Dad’s Carnegie Medal after his death

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Carnegie Hero Herbert A. Moran was a quiet man, according to his adult daughter, Kristen Solari, of Escalon, California. It wasn’t until after his death that she discovered the Carnegie …

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Friends remembered: James R. Seitz

James R. Seitz

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

James R. Seitz, 51, of Denver, North Carolina, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, after a month-long battle with pneumonia and COVID-19. Seitz received the Carnegie Medal in 2001 for the …

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Friends remembered: James Vernon

James Vernon

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

James Vernon, 81, of Morton, Illinois died Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. Vernon was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2017 for saving …

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Friends remembered: Ricky Don Bailey

Ricky Don Bailey

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Ricky Don Bailey, 63, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at his Clinton, Louisiana, home  surrounded by family. His death came after a long struggle with dementia. When Bailey was 31 …

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Friends remembered: Ronald Larsen

Ronald Larsen

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Abby Marie

Ronald Larsen, 81, of Elko, Nevada, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. When Larsen was 57, he rescued 3-year-old Nicholas R. Nolte  from burning in his family’s one-story home on Jan. …

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