This list contains the names of those members who passed away after the year 2000.  Space limitations preclude the inclusion of all members who passed away previously. The Member Roster contains the names of all deceased members. 

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"WHO ARE THESE MEN THAT WE HONOR TODAY?"

Written by Bob Dyberg

 

They are Air Rescuemen. Dedicated and patriotic members of the United States Air Force.  Aircrews, pararescuemen and ground support personnel. Operating as a team of dedicated and professional airmen. Their mission, to rescue downed aircrews and U.S. friendly forces from behind enemy lines. Emergency Air Rescue had its beginnings and proved its value in World War II. During peacetime "cold war" years, the Air Rescue Service was formed and operated 44 air rescue squadrons world-wide. Their mission, to perform emergency rescue operations and to develop the equipment and procedures needed for future combat air operations.  Air Rescue men subsequently demonstrated many daring feats of rescue and valor, both in peacetime and in war. During the Korean Conflict, over 9,000 United Nations aircrew and other military personnel were returned to safety. 996 of those fighting men were rescued from behind enemy lines to fight again. During the Vietnam War, they again made numerous rescue saves under similar but more challenging conditions of enemy opposition, weather, and jungle terrain.  Air Rescue call signs, "Crown," "King," "Dumbo," "Pedro," and "Jolly Green," coming over the air waves, were welcome and encouraging sounds to those aircrews performing hazardous combat missions, and to those aircrew members downed behind enemy lines.  Air Rescue performed with great distinction in both Korea and Vietnam, winning more personnel medals and unit awards than any other Air Force unit in those theaters. But all was not glory, as some of our men did not come home.

 

So, today we honor all Air Rescuemen who have taken their "last flight," whether in peacetime or war. We honor them for doing these things "That Others May Live."  And, lest we forget, we also honor those departed wives who stood behind their husbands over the years, not knowing when they would be called out, or when they would return.  God bless them all, and God bless America.

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Anderson, David - Nov 28, 2001
Adamson, Denny - Oct 2, 2010

Adkins, Wayne B. - Aug 29, 2016
Alford, Joe - Dec 4, 2009

Alley, David - Apr 1, 2015
Allison, Jack - Nov 2, 2011

Archuleta, Tamara - Mar 23, 2003

Arnold, Tommy R. - Nov 2010
Arruda, John - 2002

Atkins, Alex - Jan 19, 2017
Bacon, Patricia - Apr 3, 2003

Ballinger, Joseph -  Sep 20, 2021
Barklay, George - Unknown
Barlow, Robert - Dec 19, 2011
Barrasi, Peter E. - Unknown
Barrasi, Anna L. - Unknown
Barnett, William - Feb 6, 2004
Barrett, Larry - June 2009
Bauer, Thomas - Apr 9, 2001
Baughman, Ralph - July 2012

Baum, John - Sep 25, 2000
Bean - Albert - Nov 9, 2012

Beaudry, Emil - Aug 22, 2004
Beaudry, Madaline - June 2004

Beland, Duane - Feb 19, 2023
Bell, Shirley - 2008

Bell, Theodore - Feb 13, 2020
Benfield, Joanne - Unknown
Berry, James - Sep 5, 2002

Bigelow, Daniel - Aug 11, 2014
Bird, Grant - Dec 25, 2008
Blaschke, Robert - Jun 3, 2013

Bostrom, Daniel - Sep 22, 2011

Bowden, Bruce C. - Apr 17, 2015
Bowlan, Kent – Jun 14, 2008

Bowlan, LaVerne - Unknown
Bradburn, Gordon F. - Nov 24, 2007
Braddock, June - Unknown

Bressan, Christopher - Aug 22, 2014
Brewer, - Unknown
Bridges, Hollon - 2001
Britton, Warner -  June 9, 2005

Broff, Theresa - Feb 2021
Brooks, Allison - Dec 9, 2006
Brown, Lillian - Aug 7, 2003
Brown, Royal - May 11, 2003

Brubaker, Denise H. "Dinny" - May 14, 2019

Brunner, Cynthia A - Oct 8, 2016

Brunner, Edward M. - Oct 10, 2019
Buckley, James - Jul 17, 2003
Buebe, Joseph - Oct 22, 2006
Bunker, Robert - May 5, 2004

Burgess, George A. - Jun 23, 2019
Burnett, Frank - June 2003
Burks, Tillman - Apr 21, 2002
Bush,Ralph - Aug 4, 2007
Busso, Robert - Sep 26, 2010

Butera, James L "Larry" - Oct 2, 2018
Cahill, Nancy - Sep 17, 2009
Calland, Don - Aug 4, 2006

Campbell, Donald W. - Nov 11, 2012
Cantwell, Ronald - Oct 20, 2010
Carruth, Frank - Aug 5, 2001
Casey, Joseph - Oct 1, 2007

Cavallo, Ernest, Jr. - Jun 13, 2014
Chapman, Ernest - 2009
Clark, Owen - Unknown
Clark, Raymond - Unknown

Clark, Roy E. - Unknown
Cline, William - June 24, 2012

Closner, Wally - Mar 23, 2012
Cole, Doris - Nov 15, 2007
Coldren, Carl - Unknown
Coldren, Sophie - Unknown
Connell, Milton - June 4, 2007
Connell, Pat - May 18, 2006

Conrad, Theodore R. - Unknown
Cooper, Bob - Jan 6, 2006

Cramer, Brenda - Unknown
Craft, Walter - July 5, 2011
Cremwelge, Joe - July 19, 2009
Crevonis, Ed - 11/12/09
Cruey, Claude - Nov 16, 2004
Currier, Cecil - Jan 31, 2001
Dacus, Dayle - Dec,  2007
Dale Jr, Christy - May 24, 2008
Dale, Donald - Oct 17, 2006
Davis, Frank - Nov 24, 2003
Davis, Lee S. -Nov 2010

Davis, Lillian - Unknown

Davis, William - Unknown

Dawson, Thomas - May 6, 2014
Dawson, Verna - Nov 8,2010
Deery, Anita - June 3, 2008
DeMai, Nick - Nov 26, 2011
Denu, George - Mar 2, 2008
Dillon, Orvan - June 9, 2005
Dixon, Lois - Nov 30, 2005

Dobson, Sheila - May 6, 2020

Dobson, Robert T. - Aug 10, 2019

Doerr, James E. - Oct 16, 2006

Doucette, Karin - Dec 25, 2018

Doud, Earl - Mar 10, 2021
Dowell, Lynn - Feb 2010
Dowell, Ray - Dec 2, 2010

Downey, James - Feb 1, 2017

Dubroff, Bob - Jan 4, 2016
Dunks, Mary - Apr 20, 2006
Dunks, Willis - Oct 14, 2009
Dunn, Charles - May 5, 2012

DuPaul, Melvin L. - Feb 18, 2017
Dupont, Chuck - Aug 29, 2006
Duxbury, Richard - Oct 24, 2006
Dyberg, Robert - Sept 24, 2011

Eckert, William - 1998

Ellico, Arthur G. - Unknown

Elliott, William P. - Jul 30, 2015
Ellis, Loretta - Apr 2005
Elvin, Bruce - Jan 4, 2006

Engel, Richard - Nov 25, 2015
Erben, Nita - Sep 6, 2002
Everest, Avis - June 20, 2003
Everest, Pete - Oct 1, 2004
Exford, Myron - Apr 20, 2005

Farrato, Theodore - Feb 10, 2008
Ferguson, Charles - Nov 17, 2004

Ferguson, Myrtle - Apr 15, 2014
Ferrato, Jane -  Unknown

Ferreira, Arthur M. - May 10, 2018
Ferry, Bob - Jan 15, 2009
Ferryman, Dottie - Unknown

Field Jr, Charles H. - May 22, 2016
Fields, Kenneth - July 16, 2009

Fitz, Keith E. - Dec 16, 2017

Flinkfelt, Hugh - Aug 9, 2006
Flynn, Gerald D. - Unknown
Fodor, Joseph P. - Nov 19, 2003

Fogg, George - Mar 5, 2014
Foust, Ronald - May 2012
Foust, Mary - 2005
Fredrickson, Betty - Oct 20, 2007
Fredrickson, Fred - Nov 20, 2011
Freshwater, Betty - Apr 2003
Fritz, Bill - Unknown
Frost, Creighton - Dec 7, 2003

Furman, Harvey - Dec 17, 2010
Ganducci, Joe - Mar 5, 2005

Garcia, Edward W. "Bill" - Apr 3, 2015

Gasparian, Richard G. - Apr 10, 2019

Gates, Paul - Jul 7, 1999

Gates, Rita - 2012

Gaunt, Shari L. - May 2, 2018

Gendron, Roger J. - Aug 25, 2020

Genu, George - Mar 2, 2008

German, Peg - Jun 12, 2023
Gerstenberg, Vickie - Sept 9, 2009

Gilles, Clarence "Gil" - Jan 11, 2015
Glassford, Donald - Apr 26, 2006
Glowacki, Leonard - Apr 24, 2011

Glymph, Robert P. - Nov 18, 2018
Goodin, Donald - Jan 7, 2008

Gonzales, Sandy - Nov 17, 2020

Gouldrop, Harold - Jun 5, 2014

Goza, Barbara - Dec, 26, 2022

Grace, Harold W. - Feb 20, 2009

Griffin, Alexander - Oct 20, 2012
Griffin, Hiram - Feb 7, 2004
Griffin, Richard - May 13, 2007
Griffin, Shirley - Oct 13, 2007
Griswold, Wanda - 12/16/09
Guelich, Flo - Unknown
Gunnison, Justin - June 23, 2013
Gunsauls, Donald - Aug 7, 2001
Guthrie, Ronald - 2003
Haley, Robert - Unknown
Halterman, Carroll - Jan 5, 2005
Hammond, Robert E. - Nonv 29, 2011

Hampton, Lawrence - 2001

Hancock, Billie - Apr 24,2002

Hancock, Myron - Unknown

Hand, Marjorie - 2012

Hand, Stanley - Mar 26, 2015

Hannon, G. P. "Pete" - Sep 29, 2017

Harris, Charlie - Jun 29, 2022

Harris, Jerry - Apr 7, 2006
Harris, Sam - May 25, 2010

Haughee, David - 2014

Haughee, Mary - 2014

Haynes, Baylor (JGA Founder) - Jun 9, 2020

Haynes, Doris - July 2013
Heeter, Owen - Feb 17, 2007
Herrmann, Joe - Sep 29, 2009

Hicks, Jason - Mar 23, 2003
Higginson, Stella - Sep 6, 2008
Hilz, Anne - June 8, 2008
Hodson, Milburn - Mar 4, 2005
Holden, Hubert C. - Sep 6,  2001

Holl, Frank - Unknown

Holl, Margaret - Unknown
Holm, John - Apr 30, 2008

Hrycenko, Peter J. - Apr 27, 2018
Hughes, Vennie - Unknown
Huskey, Albert - Feb 19, 2006

Hutchinson, Jim - Mar 10, 2015

Irwin, Mary E. - Oct 6, 2018

Isoldi, Edith - Apr 20, 2011

Jacobs, Dorothy - Unknown
Jacobsen, Charlotte - Dec 12,2012
Jacobsen, Roy (Jake) - Jun 5, 2008
James, John - Apr 9, 2007

Jogerst, David - Oct 29, 2021

Johnson, Allyn - 25 Jun 2023
Johnson, Charles - Jan 25, 2005
Johnson, Lillian - Aug 7, 2003
Johnson, Warren M. - Mar 11, 2004

Jones, Martin J. - Aug 30, 2017

Jordon, Elbert - Oct 23, 2001

Jordon, SS - Jul 19, 2023
Julian, Robert L. - June 2013

Jurney, Thomas - 2015
Kaiatt, Ed - June 2, 2005
Kakacek, John - Feb 23, 2008
Kelly, Michael - Nov 4, 2004
Ketcherside, Robert - Nov 2001
Koehne, Ron - June 1, 2013

Kimsey, Forest (Woody) - 6 Dec 23

Komnick, Marion - Unknown

Komnick, Raymond - May 12, 2017
Korn, Kenneth R. - Feb 25, 2007
Kostelnik, Mary Ellen - Nov 17, 2012

Kraemer, Audree - July 2015

Krajicek, James - Sep 3, 2015

Krajicek, Peggy - 2013

Krumm, Ted - Unknown

Kuhn, Joseph A. - Feb 25, 2000
Lackey, Sandra Lynn May 2002
LaDou, Edward – Nov 25, 2008
Lancaster, David - Dec 11, 2003
Laubach, Louis C. - Dec 6, 2003
Lee, Eugene - Unknown

Lee, Lau - 2010
Leeper, Gloria - Dec 7, 2009
Leeper, William - Mar 17,2009
Leese, A. Myrtle - Unknown

Leist, Patricia - Unkown
Lemke, Jane - May 17, 2007

Lewis, Jeanette - Sep 10, 2021

Lewis, Neil Gene - Jul 29, 2018
Limbacher, Marion - Unknown

Lloyd, Alice - Feb 5, 2016

Lloyd, Griffith - Dec 26, 2015
Longar, Joseph - Jan 2001

Lucas, John P - Oct 18, 2024

Lucia, Donald B. - Nov 29, 2014

Luntzel, James R. Jr - Aug 9, 2015

Lyell, William A. - 2016
Maddalena, Joseph - Apr 2001

Makow, Irene - Nov 1, 2015
Makow, Nicholas - June 10, 2008
Male, Kenyon - Jan 6, 2012
Maling, Ernest - May 27, 2012

Maltz, Michael - Mar 23, 2003
Manning, Jean - Sep 3, 2001

Markham, Robert - Jul 30, 2013
Martinez, Donald - Feb 1, 2011
Mask, Kenneth - Jun 14, 2002
Mask, Lucille - Feb 24, 2004
Mason, George - Jan 3, 2000

Mathis, Benjamin B. - Unknown
MacCammond, Ken - May 25, 2004

McClelland, John - Jul 13, 2012

McCorkle, Mike - Apr 2017

McCune, L.C. - Mar 12, 2011
McDonald, William - Nov 10, 2001

McElhenney, James "Yogi" - Jan 23, 2019
McFadden, Ken - Unknown
McFadden, Ruth - Unknown
McGovern, Vincent - Feb 22, 2011
McGrain, Thomas - June 1, 2009
McGrain, Eleanore - Feb 17, 2012
McGregor, William - Unknown

McGuire, Shirley - Nov 16, 2022
McKinzie, Irma - Aug 2005

McNamee, Albert - Nov 8, 2006

McNutt, Francis B. - Jul 22, 2020

Meyer, Dottie - Sep 5, 2016
Michael, Zell - Unknown
Mikkelsen, Mont - Jan 10, 2006

Miller, Burr V. Jr. - Sep 19, 2017
Miller, Darlene - Dec 2003
Miller, Roy - Nov 2004

Miracle, Kenneth - Oct 1, 2013
Mohr, William E. - Aug 7, 2008
Moody, Hal - May 21, 2008
Moore, H. Cary - May 5, 2006
Moore, Harold - May 2010

Morandi, Richard A. - Feb 2015
Morgan, Alan - Nov 5, 2010
Mosley, Larry - May 24, 2009

Muehling, Anthony - Oct 16, 2019

Mueller, Vivian - Unknown
Mulkey, Reed - Feb 1, 2008
Murtha, James - Mar 1, 2007
Nagel, James - June 6, 2008

Neff, Charles L. - Mar 26, 2016

Naylor, Harold L. - Nov 15, 2017
Neimeyer, A. C. - Nov 24, 2006
Neuharth, Dick - 2005
Newquist, Herman D. - Dec 2001
Neighbors, Finley - Dec 22, 2007

Nicholas, Mansel - Sep 27, 1990

Nicholas, Marilyn J. - Feb 15, 2018

Nicholas, Paul 2021
Nickerson, Lloyd - Nov 11, 2004
Nobbs, Beverly - Jan 2006
Noland, Carl Rehm - Jun 16, 2007
Norman, Harold - Mar 2, 2011

Noyes, Charles E - July 17, 2022
O'Banion, Elmer L. - Unknown
Olsen, Lloyd - Feb 9, 2004
O'Mara, Oliver E. - July 1, 2007
O'Rielly, Frank J. - Jan 1, 2000

Ohshita, Miyuki - Aug. 2012
Opfer, Charlotte - Feb 19, 2002

Ormsby, John J. - Aug 2018

Parker, C. Michael - Sep 20,2018
Parman, Robert R. - Feb 22, 2011
Parnell, Charles - Nov 11, 2005

Parsons, Doris - Jun 20, 2013
Patterson, James C. - July 3, 2001
Pavel, Anne - 2005
Peel, Liz - Nov 7, 2006

Perry, Keith - Feb 28, 2022
Peterson, John O. - Mar 2007

Peoples, Paul L. - Sep 17, 2016

Plite, Jason - Mar 23, 2003

Porlier, Marcel - Nov 2017

Porlier, Pauline - Nov 2017

Potock, Walter J. - Aug 21,2017
Potter, Tom - Jan 20, 2003

Powell, John Jr - Dec 5, 2014

Powell, Patsy - Mar 28, 2014
Prince, B/Gen Phillip - Jun 9, 2003
Purdy, Shirley - July 2011

Purvine, Donna M. - June 10, 2020

Quick, Morris L., Jr. - Dec 6, 2016
Ramage, Joseph - Jan 8, 2003

Randle, Charles - Unknown

Randle, Connie - Unknown
Rauhe, Bruce - May 29, 2001
Rauschkolb, Frances - Mar 2, 2011
Ray, Edward - Jan 2012
Reynolds, Laurestine - Unknown

Reynolds, Walker Russell - Jan 1, 2016
Reicherts, William - Feb 24, 2002
Rice, Kitty - Jan 23, 2003
Richardson, David - Oct 12, 2009
Richey, James - Jan 2009

Ricker, Marilyn - Nov 10, 2020
Ricketson, Ernest H. - Unknown
Riley, Charles - Apr 30, 2010
Riley, Walter J. - Sep 17, 2003
Risedorf, Kenneth - Oct 3, 2010

Roberson, Lee A. - Apr 27, 2016
Robertson, Russ - Nov 29, 2007

Rodenberg, Jim - Jan 18, 2017

Ross, William - Sep 2005
Rottman, Barbara - May 31, 2002
Roush, Lee - Dec 28, 2003
Roy, Holly - July 2001
Rude, Don - Dec 26, 2006
Rudloff, Paul - Jan 27, 2007
Ruminer, Bill - May 30, 2006
Ruminer, Pat - Feb 16, 2009
Rundquist, Pete - Apr 11, 2011

Ruppert, Alice - Sep 11, 2014
Ruppert, Warren - Dec 2003
Rush, Wesley M. - Feb 27, 2005
Russ, John - Dec 1, 2009
Rybos, Karol - Feb 4, 2005
Sacane, Dee - Mar 2, 2005
Saenz, Tony - Oct 26, 2008

Salem, Harold - Aug 6, 2015

Saunders, Doris - Dec 2017
Saunders, M/Gen Ralph S. - Dec 8, 2002
Scalise, Eugene - Nov 16, 2011

Scarff, James P. Jr - Mar 9, 2016

Scarff, Susanne - Sep 19, 2014
Schaeffer, Rosella - Unknown

Schaetzle, Lois - 1994

Schaetzle, Stanley O. Sr - Feb 8, 2013
Schellenbarger, Claud - May 20, 2006
Schempf, Jean - May 2006
Schifferer, Jack - Aug 24, 2006

Schmaltz, Henry - Unknown

Schmaltz, Terry J. - 2013
Schultz, Richard - Nov 5, 2002
Scott, John R. - June 2, 2005
Seebo, Thomas - 2001
Seigler, Agnes - Mar 22, 2001
Severns, Charles D, - Sep 19, 2011

Shaddox, Leon M, - Mar 27, 2009
Sharp, Jim - July 21, 2006

Sherrett, Roy - Sep 24, 2014
Shires, Justin - Jan 16, 2007
Shellenbarger, Claud - May 20, 2006
Shore, E. Glenn - Mar 22, 2010
Sieth, Richard - Sept 17, 2013
Slater, Kenneth H. - 2011
Slattery, John - Mar 19, 2008

Smith, Carol - June 2014
Smith, Phillip - Feb 8, 2006
Smith, Robert F. - Aug 17, 2003

Smitham, Ronald W. - 2013
Snow, John T. - 10/1/05
Sohle, May Jane - Aug 20, 2001
Sollie, Ken - Feb 4, 2006

Sparrevohn, Fred - Unknown

Spoutz, Marcy - Jun 2, 2005

Spoutz, Roy I. - Dec 25, 2006
Sprague, Russel - Unknown

Stanford, Edward Lee - 8 Jun 2024
Starkel, Marge - 2002

Stein, John - Mar 23, 2003
Stetson, Anna - Feb 26, 2003
Stetson, Norman - Aug 17, 2012
Stevenson, Pamela - Apr 24, 2001

Stiles, Nevele - Aug 5, 2002

Sullivan, Robert F. - Sep 20,2014
Tatum, Beverly - Feb 3, 2005

Taylor, James A. - Oct 19, 2012
Taylor, Marilyn - May 11, 2002

Teal, John - Mar 23, 2003
Thompson, Charles - Jun 15, 2003

Timbrook, Wayne - Nov 18, 2012
Titus, Henry - Nov 7, 2011

Trippe, Willliam R, III - May 25, 2018

Troyanoski, Michael - Apr 3, 2013
Tuck, George - May 19, 2004

Tucker, Russell - Feb 27, 2015
Turbyfill, Carl M. Aug 13, 2003
Tyson, Shannon - Unknown

Unger, Herman - Unknown

Uranich, Dorothy - Jan 4, 2017

Uranich, Edward - Nov 7, 2000
Van Arsdall, Robert - Jan 7, 2008

Van Meter, Donald E. - Mar 1, 2017
Vargas, Bill - Feb 26, 2011
Vargas, Pierrete - Nov 19 2009

Vavra, Donald A. - Oct 30, 2014

Veys, Mary Ellen - Unknown
Vicroy, Clarence - 2010
Voge, Phillip - Jan 15, 1991
Voge, Phyllis - July 19, 1996

Voyiaziakis, Barbara - Feb 13,2018
Waage, Taylor - May 2008
Wagner, Charles R. - Jan 17, 2008
Walke, E.P. - July 17, 20122
Wallendorf, Sue - 2005

Walsh, Theresa - Mar 30, 2014
Walthour, William - Jun 19, 2001
Watkins, Lou - Mar 12, 2003
Watson, Mildred - Unknown
Webber, Robert - June 14, 2012
Webster, Annabeth - Aug 22, 2012

Wallendorf, Henry S. - May 30, 2018

Welling, William B. Jr - Unknown
Wenstrom, Alice - Aug 2008
Wesley, James - Oct 30, 2011
Wesley, Jane - Jun 13, 2002
Whitesell, Bill - Feb 16,2006

Whitney, Edward R - Feb 13, 2015
Williams, Adriel - July 8, 2004
Williams, Jasper - Nov 2010

Williams, Mary - Unknown
Williams, Phillip Y - Nov, 2009
Willsey, Leonard - Nov 14, 2002
Wismer, Fred - Nov 3, 2006

Wissert, James L - Dec 22, 2018

Witts, David - Unknown
Wolkf, Anna Merle - Unknown

Wolniewicz, Richard - Dec 21, 2020
Wynne, Emmett - Oct 4, 2005
Zehnder, Herb - Mar 4, 2008
Zimmerman, Kent - Apr 27, 2001

Zoet, Charles - Feb 23, 2014
Zoet, Virginia - Unknown
Zwick, Eugene - Jul 4, 2002

Zwinger, Herman - Jun 6, 2013