A Johnson County man is being honored with the Carnegie Medal for his heroic effort to save his grandmother in the 2015 flood. Kevin Scott Johnson II died attempting to save his grandmother, Willa M. Pennington, from drowning during the Flat Gap flood last July. Johnson and his grandmother were exiting her mobile home when it was swept away by a surge of floodwater. They, along with a boy who was inside the home, held onto a tree until they were able to climb onto a wooden platform, but were later separated. The boy was rescued, but Johnson and Pennington were not, their bodies found several days later. The Carnegie medal is awarded to civilians “who voluntarily risks his or her own life, knowingly, to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the life of another person.”