immortalize

(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. Synonyms: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalise, record. Examples: "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps." "We memorialized the dead."

(verb) make famous forever. Synonyms: immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise. Example: "This melody immortalized its composer."