MULLER, Alton F. `Scoop' 1918-1996

MULLER, TROGE, ETHINGTON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/4/2010 at 20:31:14

OBITUARY: Alton F. `Scoop' Muller, 1918-1996

CHARLES CITY, IOWA -- Alton F. "Scoop" Muller, 78, 711 Sixth Ave., Charles City, died Sunday (Nov. 10, 1996) at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, following a six-week illness.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996, at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Main and Gilbert Streets, with the Rev. Dennis D. Niezwaag and Karen Rask Behling officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.

Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. today at Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt St., with the family greeting friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

Alton Francis "Scoop" Muller was born July 9, 1918, in Rudd, the son of Frederick and Laura (Troge) Muller. He graduated from Rudd High School in 1936.

On Oct. 6, 1940, at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church, rural Osage, he married Eileen Ethington. The couple made their home in Charles City.

For 42 years, Mr. Muller was employed by the former Oliver/White Farm Tractor Factory in Charles City, both as a press operator and as a supervisor. He retired in 1978.

Mr. Muller was a member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he had served on the church council as well as an usher and collection teller.

"Scoop" was an excellent baseball player in his youth, winning many awards for his playing. His activity in baseball evolved into a love of watching baseball as well as softball in Charles City.

Living family members include his wife, Eileen, of Charles City; a son and his wife, Steven and Linda Muller, of Stoughton, Wis.; a daughter and her husband, Shelley and Bradley Glamann of Ramsey, Minn.; a grandson, James Muller; a brother, Marvin Muller, of Charles City; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister, Arlene Muller Thompson.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1996 (edited)]