A CHARLES MUELLER JR of LaSalle, IL died August 9, 2019at the age of 70. A longtime funeral director, he joined his father in 1970 at the Mueller Funeral Home in Peru and Lostant as well as the Mueller-Pagani Funeral Home in LaSalle. He also worked alongside his brother and father to establish the Mueller Funeral Home in Ottawa and Cherry and later became a partner at Prey-Mueller Funeral Home in Oglesby. Mueller retired as president of the Mueller Funeral Homes, Inc. in 2008. A graduate of the Worsham College of Mortuary Science, he was a member of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association.