FARRAR, Mo. -- Erwin T. Mueller, 80, of Farrar died Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

He was born Feb. 1, 1923, in Farrar to Ernst H. and Bertha Katherine Luehrs Mueller. He married Wilma C. Lohmann on Oct. 19, 1947.

He was a retired livestock and agricultural farmer, a member of Salem Lutheran Church in Farrar, the Salem Senior Servants, the Missouri Farm Bureau and American Legion Post 133. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Linda Verseman of Frohna, Mo., and Karla Versemann of Perryville, Mo.; two sons, Don Mueller of Perryville and Richard Mueller of Columbia; a brother, Armin Mueller of Perryville; eight sisters, Oneida Mahnken of Steelville, Ill., Thekla Mueller, Mildred Bachmann, Esther Bachmann and Florence Steffens, all of Perryville, Agnes Martin of Salem, Mo., Elinor Roth of Farrar and Eunice Roth of Frohna; and 11 grandchildren.

Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. today and from 6:30 to 8:15 a.m. Monday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville, where there will be an American Legion wake at 7 p.m. Sunday.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Salem Lutheran Church with the Rev. Michael Meraz officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.