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Former Leon Lion, Army veteran receives military headstone

A Leon High School student-athlete turned Army Veteran now has the military headstone eight decades in the making. Billy Maddox died in a Camp Blanding Hospital in 1944 after he was hit by a car while helping change a tire on the side of a road. That gravestone in September was the first step in making sure he'd always be remembered -- but those involved wanted to take it even further.