Dr. Joseph Henry Clevenger, 61, prominent Muncie, Indiana physician and surgeon, died Tuesday, June 25, 1963 at Ball Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. Memorial services at First Universalist Church with burial in Elm Ridge Memorial Park, Muncie, Ind.

Dr. Clevenger was born November 4, 1901 in Mt. Erie, Ill. son of Henry F. and Maude E. Price Clevenger. Dr. Clevenger, who resided at 3124 University Ave., and maintained offices at 424 W. Jackson St., was a native of Mt. Erie, Ill. he attended high school in Olney, Ill., and the University of Illinois before graduating from Northwestern University Medical School. He had practiced medicine in Muncie since 1931 with the exception of four years' service with the U.S. Army Medical Corps in World War II. He had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and was commanding officer of the 13th Field Hospital in the European theater toward the end of his Army service.
Dr. Clevenger was a member of the First Universalist Church and had served on a number of church boards. He was active in a number of civic organizations, including Muncie Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Delaware County Society for the Crippled. He had served as a member of the chamber and Society for the Crippled boards of directors and was a director of the Muncie Federal Savings and Loan Association at the time of his death.
He was a member and past director of the Delaware-Blackford Medical Society, and a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine and the Ball Hospital staff. He was serving as executive commerce chairman of the hospital staff at the time of his death. He also was a member of the Indiana State Medical Association, and the American Medical Association and was a fellow in the American College of Surgeons.
Surviving are his wife, Ruth; two sons, Dr. Joseph H. Clevenger Jr., Chicago, Ill., and George, at home; a grandson and a cousin, Mrs. Ruth Price Fulton of Illinois. 

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Published in The Star Press (Muncie, Ind) – Wednesday, June 26, 1963