OBIT: James E. "Ryan" DEWEY, 1967, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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  PFC JAMES E. DEWEY
  
    Private first class James E. (Ryan) Dewey, 20, nephew of Mr. and Mrs.
  Frank Emerick, Glencoe, died April 4, in Vietnam while on a jungle
  trainiing exercise, when hit by hostile automatic weapons fire.
    A member of E Troop, 17th Cavalry, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol,
  173rd Airborne Brigade, Dewey enlisted in the service April 21, 1966 and
  had been in Vietnam since Nov. 17, 1966.
    Born in Petersburg, W.Va., Sept. 24, 1946, he graduated from
  Berlin-Brothersvalley high school in May, 1964, and had filled a work
  mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), of
  which he was a member, from August 1964 to April 6, 1966.
    "Jimmy", as he was known by his friends and family, had lived with his
  uncle and aunt in Glencoe since August 1962.
    Funeral service was held Thursday, April 13, in Franklin, W.Va., with
  interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery there.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, April 20, 1967
  
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