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Officer John Smith, 2019 Awardee

Tag: friends remembered

Friends remembered: Herbert A. Moran

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

Herbert A. Moran, 66, of Arnold, California, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California. When Moran was just 24 years old, he rescued 16-year-old Stacy …

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Friends remembered: Gary F. Lamberty

Gary F. Lamberty

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

Gary F. Lamberty, 70, of Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Nearly 30 years earlier, Lamberty was awarded the Carnegie Medal for helping save two individuals from a …

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Friends remembered: Mark James Hoffman

Mark James Hoffman

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

Mark James Hoffman, 56, of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, at Cedar Crest Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Hoffman was named a Carnegie hero in 2015 for helping …

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Friends remembered: William S. Caswell

William S. Caswell

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

William S. Caswell, 84, of Austin, Kentucky, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, with his family at his side after a lengthy battle with cancer. In 1968, Caswell was awarded the …

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Friends remembered: Yuen Kong Won

Yuen Kong Won

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

Yuen Kong Won, 84, of Roseville, California, died Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, due to complications from a stroke. In 2004 Won was awarded the Carnegie Medal for rescuing a 43-year-old …

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Friends remembered: John William Oplinger

John William Oplinger

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

John William Oplinger, 72, of Wapwallopen, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Oplinger received the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for rescuing a 15-year-old boy …

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Friends remembered: Charles E. Britt

Charles E. Britt

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

Charles E. Britt, 96, of Norfolk, Virginia, died Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, succumbing to injuries he received in a recent fall. In 1998 Britt was awarded the Carnegie Medal for …

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Friends remembered: Ronald Lee McKeown

Ronald Lee McKeown

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Abby Marie

Ronald Lee McKeown, 75, of Belton, Missouri, died Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, surrounded by family at home. McKeown was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1966 for attempting to save fellow …

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Friends remembered: Kenneth L. Gerondale

Kenneth L. Gerondale

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

Kenneth L. Gerondale, 91, of Anchorage, Alaska, died Friday, June 12, 2020. Nearly 70 years earlier, Gerondale was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving the 24-year-old pilot of a jet-propelled …

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Friends remembered: Thomas L. Edgell

Thomas L. Edgell

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

Thomas L. Edgell, 73, of East Liverpool, Ohio died Monday, June 29, 2020 at the St. Mary’s Alzheimer’s Center. Edgell was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1980 after carrying a …

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Friends remembered: John M. Perritt, Jr.

John M. Perritt, Jr.

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

John M. Perritt, Jr., 69, of Fleming Island, Florida, died suddenly on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. In 1970, Perritt was awarded the Carnegie Medal for attempting to save a 19-year-old …

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Friends remembered: Clarence Q. Urbain

Clarence Q. Urbain

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

Clarence Q. Urbain, 95, of Epworth, Iowa, died Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, at Bethany Home in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1960, Urbain was named a Carnegie hero for helping to rescue …

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Friends remembered: Todd D. Clausen

Todd D. Clausen

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

Todd D. Clausen, 49, of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2020, after a three-year battle with stage-four pancreatic cancer. In 2016, Clausen was awarded the Carnegie Medal for …

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Friends remembered: Ronald Norman Grant

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

Ronald Norman Grant, 70, of Victoria, British Columbia, died Friday, July 31, 2020 in Ontario. Grant was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1965 for saving a 2-year-old girl from being …

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Friends remembered: Wallace Earl Clendenen

Wallace Earl Clendenen

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Abby Marie

Wallace Earl Clendenen, 98, of Knoxville, Tennessee, died Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Clendenen was named a Carnegie hero in 1942 for saving a 20-year-old student from drowning in Tellico Plains, …

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Friends remembered: Gerald A. LaMonica

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

Gerald A. LaMonica, 85, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., died Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Ten years earlier, LaMonica was awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving a 10-year-old girl from attacking dogs …

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Friends Remembered: Dianne R. McKenzie

Dianne R. McKenzie

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

Dianne R. (Seifert) McKenzie, 81, of Baldwin, Pa., died Sunday, March 22, 2020. McKenzie was born on June 8, 1938, to the late William and Alvina Seifert of Pittsburgh, Pa. …

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Friends Remembered: Jarrett M. Cherok

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Jewels Phraner

Jarrett M. Cherok, 38, of San Angelo, Texas, died Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. In 2006, Cherok was named a Carnegie hero for his June 8, 2005, rescue of a 47-year-old …

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Friends Remembered: Michael Robert Keyser

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Carnegie Hero Fund

Michael Robert Keyser, 49, of Hesperia, Calif., died Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, after he stopped to help a truck driver whose tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 15. Keyser was killed in …

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Friends Remembered: C. James Rospert

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Posted on October 23, 2019 by Jewels Phraner

C. James Rospert, 84, of Bellevue, Ohio, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, at his home. Rospert was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2004 for rescuing a 16-year-old girl from an …

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