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Awarded Hero Medal for Emporia man's selfless drowning attempt
Stephen Maxcy former Emporia dairy man was awarded a bronze Carnegie Hero Fund medal posthumously for bravery in saving Howard E Hoff at Grant's Pass Oregon on July 21 1926. Maxcy swam 185 feet to help Hoff but both men drowned. his widow Elizabeth Alltrust received the medal and the commemoration notes the perilous rescue.
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