J.G. Klemm Harvey ’42

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Klemm died Aug. 22, 2017. He was 98. Klemm was born June 7, 1919, in Wilmington, Del., and he attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., graduating cum laude in 1938. At Princeton he graduated magna cum laude in 1942. He married Elsie Anne Davis in 1940, who died in 1999.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1945, and after a year-long internship at Germantown Hospital, he served at the U.S. Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone from 1946 to 1948. He received residency training in pathology at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia from 1948 to 1951. After four years of pathology practice in Virginia, the Harvey family moved to Muskegon, Mich., in 1955, where Klemm was director of pathology at Mercy Hospital until 1966.

Klemm is survived by his wife, Donna, whom he married in 1999; daughters Sidney and Joan; son Charles; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

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