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2009 Department Service Awards

Top: FF Eric Seggerman (5yrs), FF Dave Lentz (15yrs), FF Rod Johnson (5yrs)
Middle: FF Matt Williams (5yrs), FF John McCafferty (10yrs), FF Nick Volz (5yrs),
Lt. Fred Kriwanek (20yrs), FF Steve Jones (5yrs), Lt. Bill Williams (20yrs),
FF Nick Cellini (5yrs), FF Matt Lohse (10yrs), Lt. Todd Loomis (20yrs), FF Andy Giarratano (5yrs)
Bottom: DC Jerry Koster (30yrs), DC Scott Spencer (30yrs)
Not Pictured: FF Todd Whiteman (10yrs), FF Gavin Hayes (15yrs), Lt. Fred Tichenor(20 yrs)

 

 

Take A Walk Through Our Past...1895 to Present

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There is hereby established a fire department in the City of Geneva, which shall consist of one Fire Marshal, one Assistant Fire Marshal, and such number of foremen and firemen as the City Council may approve. " 
Chapter X
February 9, 1895


1895
  • Warren Bullock, Charles Christensen (Asst. Marshal), Gale Herrington, W.A. Howell, Frank Huntley, Sherman E. Huntley (Fire Marshal), Claus Johnson, Gust Miller, Oscar Nelson, Gust Schulz (Capt. Hook and Ladder), Fred Smith, Ed Smith, George Stebbins (Fire Marshal) Frank Updike

1896

  • John Berrie

1897 

  • John Anderson, Frank Anderson (Asst. Marshal) Albert Anderson (Fire Marshal) Charles Bullock, John Bullock, H.W. Carlisle, Ed Ecklund, Jas. Entinger, James Glines (Hose Co.), Claus Gustavson, Nels Hausen, William Hoyt, Carl Johnson, Oscar Johnson, Gust Johnson, Jacques Laccdeso, Sam Lance, Jas. Landers, Nels Miller, William Simpson, John Skoglund, Louie Smith, Charles Wagner

1898

  • C. Beesley, Thomas Clancy, Ernest Gould, William Porter, Gus Soderstrom, Thomas Wheeler (Fire Marshal), Clarence Wright


1899

  • G. H. Anderson, William Lawson, Willie Rylan

 

1900

  • Frank Marshal

1901

  • Edward Anderson, Nels Hanson, J.L. Howell

1902

  • B.E. Richardson

1903 

  • Henry Brandt, Gust Hallquist, Gust leff, Axel Lindo, Henry Moline, H.F. Nerle

1904

  • Gust Abrahamson, Robert Brandt, John Hanson, Carl Jahn, O.C. Kenyon, Ed Landahl, Charles Nelson, Albert Peterson, L.D. Smith

1905

  • Milton Davidson, Thure "Tory" Johnson (Fire Marshal), Charles Johnson, John McBreen, Charles Osborne, Carl Strom, John Worth


1906 

  • Fred Lies, Egisto Lencioni, William Smith

1907*

  • Charles Albertson, Halmer Anderson, Eric Anderson, Anton Carlson, J. Carlson, George Carlson, Charles Jackson, Ed Johnson, Halvar Johnson, Will Johnson, Amandus Johnson, Louis Johnson, Charles Larson, Gust Miller, John Nelson, Edward Nelson, Gust Odegard, Levin Schaller
*NOTE: (1907)
Upon the dismissal of Chief Stebbins and the appointment of Thure (Tory) Johnson as Fire Marshal, the current members of the Geneva Fire Department submitted their resignations to the City Council. The following personnel were selected by Chief Johnson. For most of the members listed, they served only one year.

1908*

  • Andrew Anderson, John Anderson, Henry Brandt, Hilding Carlson, John Harrision, Carl Jahn (Asst. Marshal), O.C. Kenyon, Fred Lance, Egisto Lencioni, Axel Lindo, Thomas Murphy, Charles Nelson (Fire Chief), Charles Osborne, L.C. Smith, William Smith, Louie Smith, George Stebbins, Carl Strom, Gust Thompson, John Worth
*NOTE: (1908)
Upon the resignation of Chief Johnson, Charles Nelson was appointed by the City Council to be Fire Marshal for the City of Geneva. Upon his appointment, Chief Nelson submitted the following names to the City Council for the position of Fireman. All other current members not on the submitted list were dismissed by the Council. 

1913

  • Herman Anderson (Team Driver), John Clinnin, Sextus Ekdahl, Fred Emde, S.H. Henrickson (Fire Chief), Bernard Johnson, Alexander Linck, Peter Nelson, Leonard Smith

1923

  • Lawrence Freeman

1928 

  • Lloyd Warber (Fire Chief) *

1933

  • Fred Swanson

1934

  • George Johnson, Walter Nelson, Fred Thompson, Billy Thompson, Bernard Thompson

1936

  • Edgar Thompson *

1937

  • Robert Smith (Asst. Chief) *

1938

  • Peter Armbrust*, William Rosenfelder Sr (Asst. Chief & Chief Auxiliary Unit) *

1941

  • Silvio Neri*

1942

  • Vern Freindall, Fred Harz (Asst. Chief) *

 1950

  • Walter Gobil *

1951

  • Kenneth Fisher (Fire Chief)*, Leno Forni*, Gordon "Jimmy" Nelson*

1952

  • Alton Cherry*, Raymond Hiller (Lieutenant)*, Charles "Stu" McCauley ( Lieutenant)*, Kenneth Nelson, 

1955

  • Ted Johnson, Gino Lencioni

1957

  • Kenneth Fairbank (Auxiliary)

1958

  • Carl W. "Cully" Anderson

1959

  • John E. Burgess (Auxiliary), John Forni (Auxiliary), George Howell (Auxiliary), Harold Johnson (Auxiliary), Harold Kruse (Auxiliary), Vincent LaRooka (Auxiliary), Peter Lencioni (Auxiliary), Arlyn Lund (Lieutenant), William Rosenfelder Jr, Alvin Shuman (Auxiliary), John Strobel (Auxiliary)

1962*

  • John E. Burgess*, Ralph E. Evans* , Kenneth Fairbank*, George A. Howell (Lieutenant)*, Vincent LaRooka*, Peter Lencioni*, William Rosenfelder Jr (Fire Chief)*, Alvin Shuman (Lieutenant)*, John Strobel (Asst. Chief)*

 

*Note: In 1962, the Auxiliary unit was disband and a select few were allowed to join as Volunteers of the Geneva Fire Dept. "Joined" Dates confirmed by Kane Co Firemen's Assoc Application for Funeral Benefit Fund.

1965

  • John Forni (voted in 10/6/1965)

1966

  • Ivan Dale. Cook, Dave Ekstrom, Frank Johnson (Fire Chief), Charles Larson, Dennis Runge

1967 

  • Richard Carlson, Rev. Fr. Henry Einhaus, Rev. Fr. William Gies, Dennis Kabella, James Morris, John Ryan, Bro. Richard Tate, Bro. Eugene Thomas

1969

  • Bro. Dan Rakow, Bro. Ron Weigand

1970

  • Robert Gray, Richard Rogers

1971

  • Gary Freier, Alfred Nelson

1972

  • John Brayton (POC Lieutenant), Roger Hill, Mike Holmberg, Jack Kelley, Dan Porch, James Smith, William Weber, John Wilson

1973 

  • William Koehn (POC Captain), Charles Lencioni (POC Lieutenant), Mike McDowell, Pat McDowell, Victor Nistor, James Phelps, Richard Rippii

1974

  • Richard Bargholz, Tim Burgeson (POC Captain), John David, Richard Scott Spencer (Deputy Chief)

1975 

  • Drew Frasz, Fr. John Heraty, Steve Olson (Fire Chief), John Springer

1976

  • Guy Grot, Jeff Morris, Wayne Sorenson

 1977

  • Brian Christenson, William Miser, Jerry Sharp, John Stoffa (POC Lieutenant), J. Scott Williams

1978

  • Phil Conley (first service), Larry Desguines, Jack McGonagle Jr., Gary Sharp, R. Scott Spencer (Deputy Chief), Ronald Taft

1979

  • Craig Burgess (first service), Jim Kautz, Terry Koehn, Jerry Koster - Deputy Chief, Alfred Margovich, Jeff Ryan, William Schoessling

1980 

  • Craig Bortel, Phil Conley (2nd service), Jeff Gray, Kevin Williams, Bill Williams (POC), James Williams (1st service

1981

  • Curt Elliot, Rod Fisher, Craig Hanson, Susan Lencioni (Lieutenant), John Matson, Scott Olfest, Reinhart Pilz, Mike Pomatto, James Senor

1982

  • David Chierici, Ivan Cook, Kyle Danielson, Jim Forni, Daniel Hoffman, James Lovig, John Morris (POC Lieutenant), Mike Palombi (Medic) James Priest, Drew Smith (Medic)

1983

  • Wayne Gordon, Bob Key (Medic), Brian Monaghan, Donald Pitts, J. Scott Williams (full-time)

1984 

  • Randy Banker (Engineer), Rich Browne, Dave Hiscott (Medic),Dennis "Rick" Renner, Craig Shodeen (1st service), Shelia Schwartz

 

1985

  • Debbie Gillespie Baert (POC), John Broy, John Kessler, John Kruse (Engineer), Chris Lencioni, Aileen Nelson, Rick Rush, Andrew Young

1986

  • James Gorecki, Craig Nolden, Richard Tripoli

1987

  • Chris Birch, Christina Catrone, Scott Harmon, Suzanne Hamilton, Keith Helmlinger, Michelle Jones, Stewart Williams, Kevin Williams, Brad Wing

1988

  • Rick Dreys, Bob Howell, Craig Shodeen (2nd service), Walter Voelsch III

1989 

  • Dan Clark, Sandy Davis (Administrative), Erik Ekstrom, Fred Kriwanek (Lieutenant), Todd Loomis (Lieutenant), John Mertz, Randy Miller, Mike Rothecker, James Salsbury, Fred Tichenor (Lieutenant), Alec Vonderlack, Doug Wahl (Medic), Bill Williams (Lieutenant)

1990

  • Bill Devereaux, Kevin Forest (Lieutenant), James Hathaway, Victor Jakobsons (Medic), Gary Jones, Patrick King (Medic), Partick Manis, Ron Miller, John Schultz (Lieutenant), Dennis Seno, Bryan Vrbenec (Medic), Richard Zeigler (Medic)

1991 

  • Shannon Bar, Tim Carey, Gary Grandgeorge (Medic), Scot Helmlinger, Ron Karczewski, Mike Neitzer (Medic), Jim Sheehan (POC Lieutenant), James Taylor, John Wilson (Engineer)

1992

  • John Borowick (Medic), Mark Einwich (Lieutenant), Geoff Poole, H. Tim Seibert, Michael Spillane, Mark Thompson (Medic), James Williams (2nd Service), Randy Zies

1993

  • Dennis Argyrakis, Ann Hauser, Mike Martens, Catherine Shields, Kyle VonSchnase, Ken Williams

1994

  • Benjamin Bramwell, Gavin Hayes (POC), Patrick King, David Lentz (Medic), Patricia McGrail, Michael Mitzel (Medic), Eric Nelson (1st service), Ryan Sampson, Shawn Stephens, Richard Zeigler

1995

  • Scott Anderson (POC), Greg Feely (POC Lieutenant), Colin Giesen, Elroy Hallback, Vince Hanlon, Matt McManus (Engineer), Brian Raymond, Keith Rollins

1996

  • Mike Antenore (POC Lieutenant), Chad Clark, Brooke Ekstrom (Medic), Gavin Hayes, David Lentz, Chris Hunecke, Matt Leathers, Eric Nelson (2nd service), Ryan Sampson

1997

  • Eric Bentley, Craig Burgess (POC Lieutenant), Michael Heisler, Eldee Jackson (Medic), Ron Kobyleski (Engineer), William Kupp, Joseph Macaluso, Stephen Mudd, Jerry Pangman (Medic), Courtney Schneider, Kevin Scott, Rob Stevens, Lori York

 

1998

  • Scott Anderson, Christopher Annoreno, John DePaw (Explorer), Bryant DePiazza, Robert Garon Jr., Jennifer King, Mark Klenowski (Explorer), Tom Mazur, John McCafferty, Christopher Stepnoski, Todd Whiteman (POC), Joe Williams (Explorer), Andy Zimmerman

1999

  • Deb Baert (Medic), Joseph Creedon, Todd Fogleman (Medic), James Frederick (Explorer), David Irlbeck (Medic), Patrick Reed, Nathan Roth, William Sauber, Michael Shippy, Tom Ward, Mike Weber (Explorer), Matt Williams (Explorer), Quinn Triplett (Medic)

2000

  • Robin Avigliano, Mark Bardoel, Lindsay Dechert (Explorer), John DePauw, James East, Mike Frieders, Santo Gault, Jason Halstead (Medic), Tom Haugk, Mike Macaluso, Jeremy Montgomery (Medic), Scott Naylor, Trevor Rogers, John Schultz (POC Lieutenant)

2001

  • Mike Benz, Andy Chudzick (Medic), Lisa Eakins, Chris Fisher (Explorer), Will Gray, Dan Griffith (Explorer), Jennifer King (Medic), Randy Meyer (Explorer), Dave Moore (Medic), James Murphy (Explorer), Frank Palombi (Explorer), Ted Sciaky (POC Lieutenant), Robert Shannon, Mark Simmons (Explorer), Rob Stevens (Medic), Kevin Swanson (full-time), Hagen Zang, Greg Zudis

2002

  • Rod Bradberry, Ryan Condon (Medic), Brad Fish (Medic), Steve Fuller, Peter Gibson, Dan Kavorik (Explorer), Joe Mustard, Nolan Ryan (Explorer), Eric Seggerman (Explorer), Scott Singer, Aaron Trant

2003

  • Nick Cellini, Nick Cerullo (full-time), Chris Clausen, Andrew Giarratano, John Hardy, Joseph Macaluso (Medic), Todd Whiteman (full-time), Matt Williams

2004

  • Rob Cannon, Joe Davila, Rodney Johnson, Steve Jones, Tyler Kautz (Explorer), Scott Lynn (Explorer), John McCafferty (Medic), James "George" Murphy (Explorer), Travis Pinson (Explorer), Zach Schullo (Explorer), Eric Seggerman, Tim Schroeder (Medic), Nick Volz, Nick Walker

2005

  • Phil Affrunti, John DePauw (Medic), Sarah Freeman, Joel McNally, James Murphy, Mike Obman, Mike Rothecker, Jim Stehlin, Luke Williams (Explorer)

2006

  • Glen Baum (Medic), Ryan Bebe, Tony Campagna, Joe Kay (Explorer), Tim Lyons, Chris Nowak, Jeff Poucher (Explorer), Tony Savino (Explorer), Adam Svoboda (Explorer), Zach Schullo, Alex Volz (Explorer)

2007

  • Cameron DeHaven, Ryan Dietlin (Medic), Jason Kazimier, Kyle Moline (Explorer), Andy Ryan (Medic), David Skaar, Alex Volz

2008

  • Michael "Scott" Porter, Andrew Shad, Eric Warfel

2009

  • Katie Benson, Colin Burgess, Adam Pierce, Alex Putz

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