Ethel Muller

Ethel Muller is an NPC and the owner of The Westpoint Museum of History. She is alive.

Biography
Born in the midst of the great depression, Ethel Muller's upbringing was threadbare in pre-World War II Indianapolis. She lost both of her old brothers to the war, one in Europe and the other in the Pacific.

For the much of her twenties and thirties, she worked as a receptionist in a Indianapolis-based law firm, leaving the Hoosier state behind in pursuit of a young man named whom she'd met on vacation in Savannah Georgia.

That man was Hershel Muller, and within a few years, they married in the midst of the Vietnam war. Hershel, a member of the U.S. Navy, spent several long stretches overseas, before permanently returning to the states.

Ethel accompanied him to Texas, where modest beginnings as a laborer in an oil field bloomed into a successful career, culminating with Hershel's early 2000's retirement as a seasoned foreman. Moving to rural Kentucky to be closer to Hershel's few remaining relatives, the two decided to invest into something they'd both been passionate about, and in 2003 the West Point Museum of History opened its doors.

As Ethel's mental facilities began to deteriorate, Hershel's time was split between curating the museum, and caring for his wife. Unfortunately, he passed away in the summer of 2016, leaving Ethel as the proprietor and curator of the museum. She resided outside of town, and was looked after by the sons of an old friend of Hershel's.