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Henry Muller
MULLER, Henry - Born July 12, 1930 in Hlohovec, Czechoslovakia, died at 1:45 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Bella (Zucker) Muller, by his four children, Jerry (Sharon), Alice (Ben Zion), David (Joyce) and Michael (Adrienne), by his grandchildren, Elisha (Laura), Sara (Alan), Joseph (Keren), Tali (Jesse), Liat, Matan, Jacob (Aviva), Rachel, Rebecca, Isaac and Abraham, and by his great-grandchildren Nadia, Julia, Maya, Hannah, Daniel, Benjamin and Lily. Mr. Muller was the founder of Muller's Meats, Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, Cavalier Motel and the Niagara Industrial Mall, a respected businessman and entrepreneur and a lover of Niagara Falls, Canada. Funeral Thursday, March 2 at 1:00 pm at the Adas Israel Synagogue in Hamilton, Ontario followed by interment at Lundy's Lane Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Henry Muller, cofounder of the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame,
a public museum and tourist attraction operated in Niagara Falls,
Canada, from 1968 to 1995, died on Feb. 28 in Hamilton, Ontario. He was
86 years old.
Muller, with Dr. Harold A. Stein,
opened the Hall of Fame in May 1968 at 5019 Centre Street. The
attraction housed many significant items from Houdini’s personal
collection, including some of his childhood props, posters, a multitude of handcuffs and leg irons, a wooden packing crate he used for underwater escapes, and the famed Water Torture Cell.
Four
years after opening, the Hall of Fame moved a half block southeast to
4983 Clifton Hill, into the old Victoria Park Railway Station, where it
remained until it burned down 23 years later, on April 30, 1995. While
some of the collection, including the Water Torture Cell, was destroyed
in the fire, a lot of the paraphernalia survived and exists in many
private collections.
Heartfelt condolences to Henry’s wife, Bella, and the rest of the family.
