Businessman, municipal official.
Born at Manitou on 23 May 1937, son of Otto Hans Mueller (1904-1993) and Florence Olive Jordan (1911-1991), he attended Manitou Consolidated School, graduating in 1955. After attending the University of Manitoba, he worked at Winnipeg for a time before moving back to Manitou to work in the family hardware store with his father and brother Lewis.
On 21 August 1964, he married schoolteacher Bette Louise Boote of Kaleida and they had two sons, including Jim Mueller (1970-2020). He organized the Pembina Valley Oldtimers baseball team. In recognition of his contributions to the promotion of amateurs sports, he was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame (2002) and he received a “Sports Builder Award” from the Central Region Sports Association and the Dr. Fern Letain Memorial Award for contributions to minor hockey in the Pembina Valley (1991). He served on the Manitou town council (1968-1993) and was Mayor (1986, 1992-2005).
He was active in numerous community groups, including the Manitou Golf Club, St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Kinsmen, K-40, Central Region Sport Committee, Manitou Merchants’ Association, Manitoba Association of Urban Municipalities, Manitou Log House, and the Nellie McClung’s Homes of Manitou.
He died at Manitou on 18 April 2024 and was buried in the Manitou Community Cemetery.
Obituary [Florence Mueller], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 September 1991, page 44.
Obituary [Otto Mueller], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 August 1993, page 48.
Obituary, Wheatland Funeral Service.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Leona Devuyst and Al Thorleifson for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 May 2024
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