{"id":27829,"date":"2025-03-11T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27829"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:18:38","slug":"obituary-mcclellan-joseph-leo-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=27829","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; McClellan, Joseph Leo, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1937<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1937 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1937_McClellan_Joe_pdj.jpg\" alt=\"Joe McClellan\" \/><br \/>Joe McClellan<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe McClellan of Perry, was born in Perry on June 8, 1920.  He attended the elementary grades in Perry and attended high school in Perry.  During his high school career he participated in basketball and football, was a member of the State Honor Society and was vice president of the National Honor Society in his senior year.  Following graduation he is going to the University of Oklahoma where he expects to major in Petroleum Engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Joseph Leo McClellan, Jr.<\/h1>\n<h3>June 8, 1920 &#8211; July 20, 1988<\/h3>\n<p>Joseph L. McClellan Jr., 68, died on Wednesday, July 20, 1988. <\/p>\n<p>Born in Billings, Oklahoma, on June 8, 1920, he was the son of Joseph Leo and Madge E. Hester McClellan.  Following his graduation from Perry High school in 1937, he graduated from Iowa State University in Civil Engineering and received an LLB from the University of Oklahoma. He was a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Perry, he practiced law from 1948 to 1950 and served as attorney with Continental Oil Company in Ponca City, Oklahoma.  He served as senior counsel with Conoco in Houston from 1967 to 1978.  From 1979 to 1983 he was employed with Tenneco Coal Company.  He was a member of the Oklahoma, Texas, and American Bar Associations.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his wife, Mary Ellen Hassell McClellan; daughter, Regan A. McClellan, New Orleans, LA; son, Patrick J. McClellan and wife Tina; three grandchildren, Andrew, Katherine, and Will McClellan, all of Houston; and mother, Madge Hester McClellan, Perry, Oklahoma.  <\/p>\n<p>Graveside services and interment will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 22, 1988, at Memorial Oaks Cemetery, 13001 Katy Freeway, at Eldridge Rd., Houston, Texas, with the Rev. Bob Attaway Jr. officiating.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27829"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30520,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27829\/revisions\/30520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}