By Phoebe Porter Conway, Mass. Carnegie Medal awardee Charles T. Porter, Jr.—known by his family as “Talby” and by the outside world as “Charlie”—led an adventurous life. It was often …
Mary Laverne McDaniel, 89, of Longview, Texas, died March 21, 2017. She was the widow of Carnegie Medal awardee James Young McDaniel, who was fatally wounded while struggling with a …
William R. Wimble, 84, of Valrico, Fla., died April 24, 2016. He was one of five men awarded the medal in 1963 for that year’s Feb. 14 rescue of the …
Ruth Ella Thomas, 84, of SeaTac, Wash., died Dec. 21, 2016. She was the widow of Norman J. Thomas, who was posthumously awarded the medal in 1990 in recognition …
Ronald Leon Diggins, 76, formerly of Milton-Freewater, Ore., died Dec. 26, 2016. Diggins was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1969 for saving a worker from the burning structure of an …
Margaret Frances Pappalardo Shields, 100, of Woburn, Mass., died Oct. 14, 2016. On Dec. 30, 1929, at the age of 13, she saved a girl from drowning after the girl …
Henry C. Cameron, 94, of North Little Rock, Ark., died Sept. 16, 2016. Cameron was awarded the medal in 1938 in recognition of his actions of Aug. 21 of the …
Clementine U. Brown, 89, of McArthur, Calif., died July 22, 2016. She was the widow of Roland C. Brown, who was awarded the Carnegie Medal posthumously for his actions of …
Jackie A. Wellington, 77, of The Villages, Fla., died Aug. 3, 2016. He was awarded the medal in 1954 for his rescue actions of Aug. 18, 1952, by …
Waymon L. Halsell, 87, of Bakersfield, Calif., died July 11. He was awarded the medal in 1960 in recognition of his helping to save a man from suffocation after a …
Two young men from Southern California who met as strangers when they teamed up to save victims of a freeway crash 34 years ago died recently, within a period of …
Earl L. Zimmerman, 87, of Williamsville, N.Y., died Feb. 26, 2016. As Zimmerman, 23, was pulling the unconscious driver of a wrecked truck from its cab on March 15, 1951, …
Hershal B. Sargent, 87, of Gahanna, Ohio, died Dec. 20, 2015. Sargent was one of five men who were each awarded the medal in 1967 for their heroic actions of …
Kenneth W. Daniels, 81, of Havelock, N.C., died March 29, 2016. He and a co-rescuer were each awarded a Carnegie Medal in 1961 for saving a crewman who was trapped …
Joseph R. Sowers, 96, of Kingston, Tenn., died Dec. 8, 2015. At age 23 in 1942, Sowers, then an automobile mechanic, saved an 8-year-old boy from drowning in the flooded …
Marvin E. Panch, 89, of Port Orange, Fla., died Dec. 31, 2015. One of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers, Panch was involved in a fiery crash at Daytona International Speedway on …
Elizabeth L. Darlington, 87, of Columbia, S.C., died Jan. 2, 2016. She was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for her actions of Oct. 12, 2005, by which she—at age …
Randell Ranson, 44, of Heber City, Utah, died July 1, 2015. An Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm, where he was an instructor and drill sergeant, he worked as an …
Raymond F. Gooch, 93, of Evansville, Ind., died Sept. 16, 2015. In 1941, he was awarded the Carnegie Medal for helping to save three friends from drowning in the Ohio …
Jessie Spittal, 76, left, of Dunfermline, Scotland, died Oct. 10, 2015. She became a trustee of the Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trusts in 1974 and retired from them in …
