Former West Knox Volunteer firefighter Ray Hollingsworth was posthumously honored this past week in a state and national memorial.
A Corbin native, Hollingsworth, who lost his battle with cancer in 2018, was honored by having his name added to the state’s Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Frankfort on Wednesday. Hollingsworth was also honored Sunday by the National Firefighters Memorial in Emmittsburg, Maryland.
Chief Darryl Baker of the West Knox Volunteer Fire Department was in attendance Wednesday.
“You had bagpipes there, you had all different honor guards from all different fire departments across the state,” Baker recalled. “There’s a firefighter memorial there, and there’s a wall with names on it, he was added to that wall.