Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1913 — Widow of Hammond Man Received Carnegie Medal [ARTICLE]

Widow of Hammond Man Received Carnegie Medal

A. beautiful bronze medal, the award of the Carnegie Hero and Pension Commission, ha 9 been received by Mrs. Louis Burkhalter, 457 Indiana avenue, in eommemmoration of her husband’s heroie death, which occurred last summer, when he and Walter Webfcter tried to save Mrs. Paul Mastellar and Miss Veda Hemstoek from drowning in the Kankakee river. All four were drowned. While the popular verdist has at all much. credit Webster for a heroic death,' the commission has not yet seen fit to comfort his widowed mother, either with a hero medal or a pension. Mrs. Burkhalter, as well as her two little children, arc on the commission’s pension list and the friends of the family are glad to hear that the commission has seen fit to further honor her husband. . ' The xnedal is three inches in diameter and is inscribed on both sides. A quotation from XV 13 “Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” appears on one side. This is the standing quotation for all Carnegie hero medals. It was also the text used by the Rev. F. H. Adams on / the occasion of the funeral sermon m Hammond. The Un i ted States seal and the IHI- - state seal are on the same side. Am embossed picture of Carnegie, and an inscription of award appear on the reverse side.