Heritage Hero Award 2021 Recipients
Heritage Hero Award Winners
The Heritage Hero Award was created by the Nebraska State Historical Society Board of Trustees to recognize and thank local volunteers of history organizations around the state for their time and effort in helping to share Nebraska’s history. Nominations were sent in by cultural organizations from across the state.
The board will give out 46 awards to individuals and organizations dedicated to preserving and sharing their region’s history. Each recipient will receive a commemorative pin and certificate presented to them by a member of the Nebraska State Historical Society Board of Trustees.
The 46 recipients of the 2021 Heritage Hero Award are listed below.
Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
The National Willa Cather Center | Red Cloud, NE
Betty Ewald
Creighton Historical Society
Brown-Harano Studio Photograph Collection
Volunteers: Bill McGahan, Mary Dymond, Arlene Cross, Kathy Wenz, Don Milroy, Don Lucas, Don Kilgore, and Mike Douty | Lincoln County Historical Museum
Carolyn McCormick
Douglas County Historical Society | Omaha, NE
Charles “Churck”Matzke
Nebraska National Guard Museum | Omaha, NE
Sean Chance, Linda Engel, Tim Engel, Jan O’Neil, Scott O’Neil, Jhude Sedlacek, Josh Shirley and Josh Whitney
Civil War Museum | Nebraska City, NE
Eileen E. Bergt
Preservation Association of Lincoln | Lincoln, NE
Elaine Batenhorst
BCHS Trails and Rails Museum | Kearney, NE
Jerry Kneifel
Platte County Historical Society | Columbus, NE
Keith Mahaney, Dr. Susan LaFlesche
Picotte Center | Walthill, NE
Levern Hauptmann
Antelope County Historical Society | Neligh, NE
Marlene Geiger
Robert Henri Museum | Cozad, NE
Nona Weise
Scribner's Musbauch Museum
Phyllis C. Krotz
The Armstrong House Museum | Crawford, NE
Rick Myers
Legacy of the Plains | Gering, NE
Robert E. Hoins
Clay Center Historical Society | Clay Center, NE
Ruth Lindly
Custer County Historical Society | Broken Bow, NE
Sheila Green
nternational Quilt Museum | Lincoln, NE
Shirley Sides
Dakota County Historical Society | Emerson, NE
Susan Warneke
Pierce Historical Society | Pierce, NE
Thomas Wallerstedt
Swedish Heritage | Center Oakland, NE
Shirley Sides
Dakota City
Mike and Shirley King
Karen Mosel
Perkins County Historical Society | Grant, NE Robert Culver
National Museum of Roller Skating | Lincoln, NE
Sharon W. Disharoon
Butte Community Historical Center | Butte, NE Joan Zoeller
Richardson County Historical Society | Fall City, NE Raleigh Sheffield
Durham Museum | Omaha, NE Milt Kotrc
The Archway | Kearney, NE Pete Cawiezel
Morrill Museum | Morrill, NE Sarah Chittenden Williamson
Johnson County Historical Society | Tecumseh, NE Frank Tolstedt
Carnegie Arts Center | Alliance NE Charlene Vail
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