Tag: friends remembered

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …