MUELLER, Rev. Edmund M.
MUELLER, SCHULZ, PIETZ, CHERRY
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/12/2013 at 02:09:19
Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
October 08, 1999Obituary ~ Rev. Edmund M. Mueller
September 17, 1896 ~ October 06, 1999MASON CITY - The Rev. Edmund M. Mueller, 103, died Wednesday (Oct. 6, 1999) at Good Shepherd Health Care Center, Mason City.
A funeral service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Salem Lutheran Church, Parkston, S. D. Burial will be in Grace Hill Cemetery, Tripp, S. D.
Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., Mason City, is in charge of arrangements.
Edmund M. Mueller was born Sept. 17, 1896, to August and Wilhelmina nee Schulz Mueller on a farm near Parkston, S. D. When he was about nine years old, he moved with his family to the Kulm community also near Parkston. He was the fifth of 11 children born in his family. He remained and farmed in the area and did carpentry until he decided to become a pastor.
In his early twenties, he went to Wartburg Academy and College in Waverly, to prepare to enter Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque. He graduated from the seminary in 1924 and was ordained into the ministry at Salem Lutheran Church, Parkston, S. D., in June 1924. His first congregation was Salem Lutheran, Jackson, Minn.
The following August 10, he married Martha Pietz in Salem Lutheran in Parkston. During his ministry, he served congregations in Jackson, Welcome and Gaylord, Minn., St. Francis, Kan., and Kellogg-Elk Creek, Iowa.
In 1946 he and his wife established the Good Shepherd Home in Mason City, formerly called the Good Samaritan Home, and continued that work until his retirement at age 66.
During the Mason City years, he also worked with many communities in Iowa, Minnesota, Washington and Oklahoma in establishing many other Good Samaritan Homes for the Evangelical Good Samaritan Society. After his retirement they moved to Minneapolis. They did not spend a lot of time there because he spent the next nine years serving as interim pastor at various congregations in Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota.
They moved back to Good Shepherd in 1979 after Martha suffered a disabling stroke. He helped care for her at the home until her death in 1987. He continued to be cared for in the home until his death.
Edmund and Martha were the parents of four children, Dennis, twins Norbert and Gilbert, and Gwenn. His work and family were always a high priority for him. He had 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Those who mourn his death include his daughter-in-law, Bulalia Mueller, Hastings, Neb.; sons, Norbert and Dorothy, Jackson, Michigan, Gilbert and Fayth, Yukon, Okla.; daughter, Gwenn and Ron Cherry, St. Paul, Minn.; plus grandchildren and their families.
Those preceding him in death included his parents; his wife, Martha; 10 brothers and sisters; one son, Pastor Dennis Mueller; and two grandchildren.
He spent his productive life loving, serving and giving of himself to family, church and others.
Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel - (515) 423-2372.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013
Cerro Gordo Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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