Quincy Service Club looking for nominations for 73nd annual Golden Deeds Award

QUINCY — The Quincy Service Club is giving people an opportunity to recognize someone who has been a selfless volunteer or has worked tirelessly on behalf of the community.
The club will present its 73nd annual Golden Deeds award during a luncheon in May at the Elks Club. The club is accepting nominations through March 21.
The Book of Golden Deeds is the most distinguished award the Service Club presents each year. Last year’s recipient was Jeff Dorsey, who was recognized for 34 years of service to the club as well as his decades of work on local radio stations and his volunteer work for the Alzheimer’s Association, the Quincy Area Crime Stoppers, the Elks Lodge and the Mart Heinen Club.
Past recipients have made a positive impact in various ways on the lives of many people in Quincy. The award is called the Book of Golden Deeds because letters, written on behalf of the recipient by those who have firsthand knowledge of their efforts, are placed in a book and forever documented.
Nominees may be anyone who has made Quincy a better place to work and live. They may be the people who lead a worthy cause, or they may quietly go about their volunteer efforts behind the scenes.
Nominations may be made by letter sent to Golden Deeds Award, P.O. Box 1163, Quincy, IL 62306, or by email to Cullan Duke at dcd@klingner.com. Include your name and the name of the nominee along with the deed or deeds on which the nomination is based. Visit the Service Club’s website for an online form or print the form below.
Past Golden Deeds recipients
Year | Quincy’s Book of Golden Deeds Honorees |
2023-24 | Jeff Dorsey |
2022-23 | Jim Heckenkamp |
2021-22 | Chuck Scholz |
2020-21 | Adams County Healthcare Professionals |
2019-20 | Harold Mast |
2018-19 | Kirk Frageman |
2017-18 | Pat & Kevin Steinkamp |
2016-17 | Margaret “Marg” Andrews |
2015-16 | Jack Mackenzie |
2014-15 | Phil Conover |
2013-14 | Patty Adam |
2012-13 | JoAnn Witte |
2011-12 | Hazel Mills |
2010-11 | Tom Behrens |
2009-10 | Phyllis Smith |
2008-09 | Kevin Curran |
2007-08 | Jerry Mast |
2006-07 | Ada Himes |
2005-06 | Bill Hageman |
2004-05 | Herb Wellman |
2003-04 | Randy McFarland |
2002-03 | Linda Dillman |
2001-02 | Betty Wiewel |
2000-01 | Melvin Koch |
1999-00 | Harold Phillips |
1998-99 | Raymond Hinkamper |
1997-98 | Carl Landrum |
1996-97 | Russell Hess Sr. |
1995-96 | Thomas Gott |
1994-95 | Isabelle & Bernie Willer |
1993-94 | Roger Mohrman |
1992-93 | Arlene Foley |
1991-92 | Martha Muegge |
1990-91 | Thomas Awerkamp |
1989-90 | Marjorie Hudson |
1988-89 | Wilhelmina (Billie) Brod |
1987-88 | Donald Heckenkamp |
1986-87 | Joanne Ortwerth |
1985-86 | George Parsons |
1984-85 | Marie Sloan |
1983-84 | Mary Ann Gullen |
1982-83 | Carlene Geisler |
1981-82 | Minnie Schlinkman |
1980-81 | Doris Penington |
1979-80 | Mrs. John French |
1978-79 | Betty Pracht |
1977-78 | Kathleen Peters-Druffel |
1976-77 | R.S. Brackman |
1975-76 | Ethel Fletcher |
1974-75 | Joe Bonansinga |
1973-74 | Ruth Logan |
1972-73 | Generivieve Klingele |
1971-72 | Howard Wear |
1970-71 | Ralph Meyers |
1969-70 | Edward Altmix |
1968-69 | Thomas Oakley |
1967-68 | Helen Smith |
1966-67 | Irma Jones |
1965-66 | George Durst Sr |
1964-65 | Deloris Hase |
1963-64 | Ralph “Doc” Wiegmann |
1962-63 | Mary McAllister |
1961-62 | Dr. Harold Swanberg |
1960-61 | Helen Jarrett |
1959-60 | James Primrose |
1958-59 | C.H. Swinehart |
1957-58 | Fabiola Moorman |
1956-57 | Lawrence Steinkamp |
1955-56 | John Inghram Sr. |
1954-55 | Eugene Kirkpatrick |
1953-54 | Mabel Ahern |
1952-53 | Harry Lov |
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