[1][2] Born in Washington, D.C., in late July 1933, the son of Francis Duehay and Olive Dennett, Duehay lived in Belmont and Acton before moving to Cambridge at age 8, where he grew up mostly in West Cambridge with his mother, an administrator at the First Parish in Cambridge, and his stepfather, Moncure Burke Berg, a patent attorney.
He served on the Cambridge City Council, including terms as mayor in 1980–81, 1985, and finally in 1998–99.
She is his only surviving immediate family member, and had retired in 2013 as assistant clerk for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
[3] Frank Duehay died in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of acute leukemia on November 20, 2020, aged 87.
He had moved a few years before with his wife, Jane Kenworthy Lewis, from the Cambridge house where he grew up to the Brookhaven at Lexington retirement community.