The late Duane E. Dewey, a Medal of Honor recipient, will be remembered at a service in Gainesville gainesville.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gainesville.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Duane Dewey, who received the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade with his body to save fellow Marines during the Korean War, and whose recovery from grievous injuries led President Dwight D. Eisenhower to quip, “You must have a body of steel,” died Oct. 11 at a nursing home in St. Augustine, Fla. He was 89.
Duane Edgar Dewey, beloved father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away at Clyde E Lassen State Veterans Nursing Home in St. Augustine, Florida on