1950 – 2016

SIDNEY — Margaret “Peg” Mueller Shore, teacher, wife, mother and grandmother, died after a valiant battle with cancer Monday, Sept. 26.

She was born Nov. 22, 1950, the daughter of Cyril and Anita (Daigle) Mueller and lived her childhood years in Madawaska.

She attended Westbrook College of Portland, and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in clinical lab sciences. She received a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1976, and began teaching college while in graduate school. She fell in love with teaching and continued to do so for 30 years. She taught biomedical sciences at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Westbrook College, Southern Maine Community College, and the University of Maine at Augusta and Lewiston-Auburn College. She taught more than 5,000 nursing students in the Augusta area alone, and was pleased to have them as her caretakers during her illness.

In 2012, she graduated with her PhD. in health policy from the Muskie School of Public Service, where she completed a national financial study of critical access hospitals (small, rural hospitals). She was particularly interested in the survival of such hospitals, which make up 40 percent of Maine hospitals, because they allow access to health care for rural persons.

More recently, she established a new program at Maine CDC to reduce health care associated infections in Maine, working with Maine hospitals, nursing homes and doctors’ offices. She was an active member of the Maine Practitioners of Infection Control, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and a member of the Maine Quality Forum Subcommittee on Health Care Associated Infections. She was president of the Class of ’71 UNE/Westbrook College Alumni and served as a board member of the University of New England.

Peg was a “Renaissance” woman. She had multiple talents. She was an artist working with oils, pastels, charcoal, acrylics and watercolors. She was also a talented piano player. She authored many magazine articles and published a study guide for anatomy and physiology.

But most important to Peg was her family. She is survived by her daughter, Kathleen Wilson of Lebanon; and her husband, Robert Shore of Sidney. She doted on her grandchildren, Evan and Isabelle Wilson of Lebanon and Grace Kenneally of Lewiston. They were a constant source of joy.

She was predeceased by her parents and brother, John Mueller. She is survived by her husband, Robert; and daughter, Kathleen Wilson; and three grandchildren. She has two living sisters, Marjorie Mueller of Ottawa and Donna Emack of Houlton. She also has three brothers, Wendell Mueller of Ohio, Marc Mueller of Ottawa, and Rick Mueller of Berwick.

She was a member of the Green Street United Methodist Church of Augusta for 25 years, and will be missed for her activities and devotion to that church. She was an advocate for feeding the hungry, and in the past three years, spearheaded efforts to raise six tons of food for the Augusta Food Bank through the generosity of Green Street Church members.

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