The entire community was greatly shocked Sunday afternoon when the news spread that J. Mueller had passed away at the Wise Memorial Hospital in Omaha at about 2 o’clock that afternoon. He had been there about two weeks awaiting an operation for gall bladder trouble but his condition was such that the operation was never performed, he being too weak to stand it. Since last August he hadn’t been well. He spent several months at the Blair Hospital dieting for stomach ulcers and seemed to recover and be pretty well for a time. About a month ago he grew worse and the trouble was diagnosed as gall bladder trouble. The body was brought up here Sunday evening and the funeral will be held at the family residence on South Street at 2:30 this afternoon, Rev. A. F. Newell and Rev. W. H. Underwood officiating. Julius Mueller was born in Bremen, Germany, Sept. 25th, 1871, so almost 55 years of age. He came to this country when a boy of sixteen years and has always made his own way. He settled in Omaha and was married there to Miss Mary Wiese May 7th, 1893. Mr. Mueller worked for Groneweg & Schoentgen wholesale grocers, of Council Bluffs, for twelve years, coming to Blair in August of 1908 to start a grocery store of his own. By careful business methods, courteous ways and strict honesty he built up a successful business and made hosts of friends at the same time. He took an interest in the uplift and betterment of the community, was for many years treasurer of the Blair Chamber of Commerce and took and active interest in the doings of the Trapbols Camp, M. W. A., of which he was a member and policy holder. He is survived by his wife, and five children, Fred, of Bloomfield, Nebr.; Margaret, Mrs. Paul Stewart, of Lincoln; Edith, Mrs. John Barry, who lives on a farm near Blair; Julius, Jr. who is a law student in Creighton University, Omaha; and Miss Helen who lives at home. Mr. Mueller had one brother, of Milwaukee, Wis., who arrived yesterday, and a brother and sister in Germany, whom he visited in the summer of 1922 when he and Mrs. Mueller spent the summer abroad. The family has lost and ideal husband and father, and the community a clean, wholesome citizen whom the breath of scandal never touched, and personally thousand have lost a friend who will long be remembered and whse exemplary life is a high example for us all.

Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.