Major Awards – Florida Society SAR

Minuteman Award

The most prestigious award of the National Society. Only Compatriots who have made distinguished and exceptional contributions may be recognized. Since 1952, only 443 Compatriots have received this award.

Florida Minutemen Awardees

Date	Name
2026-07-13	COL Patrick Jay Niemann USA (ret)
2023-07-17	Wm Lee Popham, Sr.
2015-06-29	Randy Dwight Moody
2011-07-01	Lindsey Cook Brock
2003-06-01	Roland G Downing
2001-07-02	Ralph Daniel Nelson, Jr.
1992-06-01	Richard Edward Friberg
1991-07-01	Edward Sherman Hoyt
1991-07-01	Carl Andrew Nissen Jr.
1981-06-01	Carlton Edward Fisher
1974-06-01	Carl K Hoffmann

Patriot Medal

The highest award presented to a Compatriot by a State Society. Recognizes long, faithful, outstanding, and distinguished service to state and/or chapter. Awarded annually.

Florida Patriot Medal Recipients

2020s

2026-05-16: Walter Boyer Arnold, Jr
2026-05-16: Harry William Elder
2026-05-16: Willard Douglas Gibbens
2025-05-17: Jonathan Hunt
2025-05-17: Philip Butler Markoe
2025-05-17: David Charles Thomas
2025-05-16: Christopher Edwin Washler
2024-05-18: Hampton Eugene Allen, Jr.
2024-05-18: Jerry Miles Hanchett
2024-05-18: DeCody Brad Marble
2024-05-18: William Rutherford Wicks, III
2023-05-20: Leonard William Crame
2023-05-20: Ronald Lee Grove
2023-05-20: Earl Frederick Mathews Jr
2022-05-14: M. Scott Breckenridge
2022-05-14: Dwight Donald Elam
2022-05-14: Robert Williams McGuire, Jr
2022-05-14: Robert Sturley Yarnell
2021-06-25: David Neal Spooner
2021-05-01: David Eben Bussone
2021-05-01: J. Gray Chandler
2021-05-01: Wm Lee Popham, Sr.
2020-06-12: Steven Ray Fields
2020-06-12: Donald K Lanman
2020-06-12: COL Patrick Jay Niemann USA (ret)
2020-06-12: William Gilbert Teater Sr.
2020-02-22: Michael Ellis Fishbein

2010s

2019-05-10: James Lewis Gibson Jr.
2019-05-10: Lonnie Gerald Jones
2019-05-10: Jeffrey Lee Sizemore
2019-05-10: John Murray Stewart
2019-05-10: Walter Richard Young Sr.
2018-11-05: Ronald Lee Peck
2018-05-19: Alfred Parks Honeywell
2018-05-19: Lee William Matson
2018-05-19: Raymond Francis Wess
2017-05-20: Edward Swift Buckley IV
2017-05-20: Lawrence Gene Fehrenbaker Sr, MD
2017-05-20: James Yost Gaskins
2017-05-20: John Logan McCullough
2016-05-14: David John Kelsey, Sr.
2016-05-14: Jack L. Townsend Jr.
2015-05-02: Donald Barton Cahill
2015-05-02: Norman Lewis Myers
2015-05-01: Luther Richard Lloyd, Sr
2014-05-16: Dale Coyle Bottom
2014-05-03: Earle Scott Bushnell
2014-05-03: Charles Louis Day Jr
2014-05-03: Danny Robert Hooper
2013-05-04: Hermann Hall Riediger
2013-05-03: Douglas Harmon Bridges, Sr
2013-05-03: Victor George McMurry
2012-05-05: Raymond Clyde Lantz
2012-05-01: Randy Dwight Moody
2011-05-14: Nelson Weeks Jantzen
2011-05-14: Phillip Herbert Tarpley
2011-05-14: Steven Allen Williams
2010-09-17: Charles William Riegle
2010-05-01: Theodore Matthew Duay III
2010-05-01: James Daryl Partin
2010-05-01: David Hardy Ramseur

2000s

2009-04-25: Richard Bruce Cardell
2009-04-25: Dabney Carr Terrell Davis Jr.
2009-04-25: Leon R Hammock Sr.
2007-04-27: Lindsey Cook Brock
2007-04-27: Gene Cox Brown
2007-04-27: Ronald Eugene Toops
2006-04-29: Benjamin Mayes DuBose
2006-04-29: Kevin Arthur Yarnell
2005-05-01: Basil Leo Lancaster
2005-05-01: Robert Howard Moody
2005-05-01: Grant Rowland Wallin Jr.
2004-05-01: Alvie Leon Davidson
2004-05-01: Frederic Frelinghuysen Gaines Jr.
2004-05-01: Saul Mariano Montes-Bradley
2004-05-01: Charles Herbert Schafer
2003-05-01: Kenneth Eugene Harrison
2003-05-01: Harry Francis Hollien
2002-05-01: Thomas Yonge Bingham
2002-05-01: Richard Quentin Fowler
2002-05-01: James Robert Holyfield
2002-05-01: Harold Frank Miller Jr.
2001-05-01: John Henry Carter
2001-05-01: Ralph Allen Eastwood Sr.
2001-05-01: Albert Chamberlain Little
2001-05-01: William Milton Towery
2000-05-01: Jim Rodgers Armitage
2000-05-01: A. Oscar Kraehenbuehl
2000-05-01: Owen Hayes Malcolm
2000-05-01: John David Tinny

1990s

1999-05-01: Sam Wood Boone Jr.
1999-05-01: Frank Xavier Hodalski
1999-05-01: Douglas Haldane North
1999-05-01: Raymond Shepley Sr.
1998-05-01: George Andrew Burns
1998-05-01: Frederick William Curtis
1998-05-01: Renaldo Joseph Hamilton
1998-05-01: Abram McComas Thomas
1997-05-01: James Ross Blackburn
1997-05-01: Edward (Bud) Neil Casey
1997-05-01: Walter Earl Marlin
1997-05-01: Albert Jefferson Twiggs Sr.
1997-05-01: Charles Shelby Wingate
1996-05-01: John Clement Alderman
1996-05-01: John Esten Cahoon Jr.
1996-05-01: Ralph Norman Cramer Sr.
1996-04-26: Ralph Daniel Nelson, Jr.
1996-03-15: James Carson Hofstetter
1995-05-01: Guy Starbuck Athearn
1995-05-01: Stuart Prescott Browne
1995-05-01: Phillip Bruce Carr
1995-05-01: Courtenay Neal Crutcher
1995-05-01: Stanley Allen Evans Sr.
1994-05-01: David Alonzo Avant Jr.
1994-05-01: Rollin LeRoy Bauchspies Jr.
1994-05-01: Lauren R Bradley
1994-05-01: Arthur Edward Chapman
1994-05-01: Gerald J Morgan III
1993-05-01: William Vincent Carnes Sr.
1993-05-01: Robert Douglas Copeland
1993-05-01: John Baxter Ware
1993-05-01: Winthrop A Young
1992-05-01: William Robert Stevenson
1992-05-01: Edward Delano Sullivan
1992-05-01: William Samuel Weddle Jr.
1991-05-01: Charles Eugene Claghorn III
1991-05-01: Ira Newell Kellogg Jr.
1991-05-01: Charles Arthur Ralston
1991-05-01: Harry Linford Young Jr.
1990-05-01: John Eliott Beebe Jr.
1990-05-01: Martin D Fetherolf Jr.

1980s

1989-05-01: Howard Russell Ford
1989-05-01: Raymond Anthony Haas
1989-05-01: Albert Bryan Snapp
1989-05-01: Henry Elmer Winter
1988-05-01: Richard Irvin Jr.
1988-05-01: Floyd David May
1988-05-01: Frederick Russell Snyder Jr.
1987-05-01: Robert Clark Foster
1987-05-01: John Bruce Marshall
1986-05-01: Michael Ray Gentry
1986-05-01: Lunsford Otto Healy
1986-05-01: Edward Sherman Hoyt
1985-05-01: Leo Sylvester La Fontaine
1984-05-01: Carl August Buechner Jr.
1984-05-01: Simon Floyd Coats Jr.
1983-05-01: Richard Edward Friberg
1983-05-01: James Russell Miles Sr.
1983-05-01: Joseph Simeon Rumbaugh
1982-05-01: James Frederick McClanahan Sr.
1981-05-01: J Alan Cross Sr.
1981-05-01: Wilbur H Sisson
1980-05-01: Carlton Edward Fisher
1980-05-01: Henry L Hinkle
1980-05-01: Sidney Scott King Jr.

1970s

1979-05-01: William Swasey Hatt
1977-05-01: Cecil Leslie Bothwell Jr.
1977-05-01: Herbert L Bowers
1977-05-01: Zack Maroney Williams
1976-05-01: George Edward Morris Jr.
1976-05-01: Matthew Bacon Sellers III
1976-05-01: Richard Henry Thompson Jr.
1976-05-01: John Dupree Williams
1975-05-01: Austin Richards Drew
1975-05-01: Luther F Gerhart
1975-05-01: Calvin E Sutherd
1975-05-01: James Lawrence Waugh
1974-05-01: George Davis Avant
1973-05-01: Clarence L Hewitt Jr.
1972-05-01: Harley D McKesson
1971-05-01: Curtis E Haley
1970-05-09: Carl K Hoffmann
1970-05-01: Eden C Booth
1970-05-01: Bickford E Sawyer Sr.

1960s

1969-05-01: Francis F Henderson
1969-05-01: V Winthrop O'Hara
1965-05-01: Jack Coleman
1964-05-01: Philip Nathans Coleman

Date not recorded

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