Names in the News: 3 Policemen Save Woman's Life

Pat Bobrowicz now knows that her heart couldn't have stopped beating at a more convenient place and time than while driving her friends to a  restaurant on the evening of March 24. That's because as a rider in the front passenger seat managed to stop the vehicle on Oak Park Avenue and pull it over near 179th Street, retired police officer Ralph Hilton was just steps away. 

Bobrowicz was in full cardiac arrest by the time Hilton got to the vehicle, where he quickly began chest compressions on a perfect stranger. He called 911 and soon had two other  officers at his side. Patrolmen Dennis Mahoney and Michael Schabert fell instinctively into their life-saving roles. Schabert took over compressions and Mahoney prepared an automated defibrillator. Despite three cardiac arrests that day, Bobrowicz lived that day. She has the three men to thank but said she'll never fully know how.

"How do you thank someone for saving your life?" she said at a .

 Browse through Patch's Greatest Person of the Southland gallery, or read one of these: