Background
Muren was born in Richmond, California. His father was of Slovenian descent and his mother was of Italian descent.
Muren was born in Richmond, California. His father was of Slovenian descent and his mother was of Italian descent.
University of Southern California. San José State University.
He was raised as a Roman Catholic. This ended Muren"s chances of inheriting the family business. Afterwards, he was a high school mathematics teacher while he earned his master"s degree from San José State.
In 1963, Muren married Gladys Smith in the Los Angeles California Temple.
Muren then got his doctorate degree from the University of Southern California. He first taught at the institute adjacent to El Camino College.
After teaching at several institutes, Muren served as president of the Costa Rica San José Mission of the church from 1977 to 1980. This mission covered Nicaragua and Muren was involved in both pulling out missionaries and sending them back in in the midst of war in the fall of 1978.
After this mission Muren served as director of temporal affairs for the church in Peru.
Later he held the same position in Argentina and Australia and in 1989, he assumed the same position in England. In 1993, Muren was serving in the presidency of the Europe Mediterranean Area of the church. Muren also served for a time as president of the Central America Area of the church.
He died in 2009 in Layton, Utah.
Muren was called as member of the church"s Second Quorum of the Seventy in April 1991.
