Honorary Membership in the MSFDA

Section 2.1.4 Honorary Life. A member who has served not less than 20 years as an active firefighter in one or more of the fire departments in the State of Minnesota, provided that said department or departments hold membership in this Association.

a) Applications for Honorary Life Membership will be received and acted upon at the conference provided they have been filed with the Secretary at least 30 days prior to the first day of the conference.
b) Persons elected to Honorary Life Membership shall be notified of such elections and be provided with a suitable certificate of membership by the Secretary. They shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges accorded all members and entitled to a vote provided they are registered delegates to the conference.

2009 Inductees:

ALBANY FIRE DEPARTMENT

Joe Gilk

BELGRADE FIRE DEPARTMENT

Charles Ampe
John Roelike

COLOGNE FIRE DEPARTMENT

Dave Samuelson

Tom Walter

ECHO FIRE DEPARTMENT

Keith Anderson

HUTCHINSON

Shannon Beem

Roger Bluhm

James Brodd

Brad Emans

Harlan Emans

George Field

Earl Fitzloff

Tom Glaeser

Clint Gruett

Orlin "Butch" Hanke

Ted Hanson

Ed Homan

Myron Johnson

Sheldon Nies

Tom Pessek

Jim Popp

Richard Popp

Bruce Precht

Randy Redman

John Reynolds

Lloyd Schlueter

Steve Schramm

Casey Stotts

Marlin Torgenson

Bob Vieyra

LuVerne Wylie

Darv Zieman

KENYON FIRE DEPARTMENT

Tony Buck

LAKE CRYSTAL FIRE DEPARTMENT

Ed Betz

Dean Schons

LONG PRAIRIEFIRE DEPARTMENT

Scott Hillman

Larry Reiber

Johnny Saarela

OSAKIS FIRE DEPARTMENT

Mark Ferris

John Swenstad

OWATONNA FIRE DEPARTMENT

Mark Gauthier

Ron Segner

SAUK RAPIDS FIRE DEPARTMENT

Kirk Abraham

ST. JAMES FIRE DEPARTMENT

Robert M (Mike) Anderson

Don Crissinger Clark

Tim Flaata

Bryan Nelson

Lorin Nommensen

Delvin Schiller

Wayne Thomas

Bill Thulien

WACONIA FIRE DEPARTMENT

Michael Dertinger

Hans Rowe

Steve Wert

WANAMINGO FIRE DEPARTMENT

Leslie Blakstad

Greg Erickson

Todd Greseth

WATERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT

Mike Barthel

WATERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT

Tom Besser

Denny Morris

Mark Pittman

Alan Schmidtke

John Spoor