He took his pre-med course at Gustavus Adolphus College and received his MD degree at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He had always wanted to be a farmer as he grew up, but in his junior and senior years of school when the family encountered wet years and had difficulty with the crops, he decided to become a doctor. When Dr. Mueller first came to Hendricks, he made a lot of house calIs in all area towns. He says he has not counted the number of babies he has delivered., but it is over 1,500. LeRoy has commented on howdramatically the medical field has changed since he began his practice 37 years ago.
Patients now get better care and there are greatly improved medications available.
He gets frustrated with the cost, however, believing that it is way too high and there seems to be no way to control it. LeRoy and his wife, Gloria, have four children. Brian is a research chemist at Aurora, Illinois, and has a Ph.D. in chemistry. Lisa lives in Santa Rose, CA, and is working in the outpatient chemotherapy department. Bart lives in Sully, IA, and teaches chemistry.