(CNN) Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, who was the last surviving recipient of a World War II Medal of Honor, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Senate Majority Leader announced Sunday Chuck Schumer.
The date and other details will be announced later, Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement.
“Woody Williams embodied America’s best: living a life of duty, honor, and courage,” said Pelosi, a California Democrat.
Schumer, a New York Democrat, called Williams “an American hero who embodied the best of our country and the greatest generation.”
Williams, who died Wednesday at the age of 98, received the Medal of Honor after serving in the Battle of Iwo Jima and exhibiting “courageous devotion to duty.” President Harry Truman presented Williams with the honor in a ceremony at the White House on October 5, 1945.
The Medal of Honor is the highest award in the United States for military bravery.
During a Sunday funeral in Williams’ native West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin announced that he had received a call that morning informing him that Williams would be remembered in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Manchin, a Democrat from the state, praised Williams as someone who “never stops giving back” by raising money for Gold Star Families with an annual motorcycle ride.
“It raised hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Manchin said Sunday, adding, “It won’t stop because Woody will come after me right away.”
Manchin said he will miss Williams’ phone calls, joking how Williams would give him directions on how to do his job.
“I will long for him to tell me how I should vote. And when I didn‘t, how I was wrong,” Manchin said.
CNN’s Jake Tapper contributed to this report.
