Robert Muse, who, with his wife Mary of 68 years and their family of 11 children, 38 grandchildren, and 9 great-gfandchildren, was honored at the Boston Irish Reporter’s Boston Irish Honors luncheon in October, died on Nov. 29. He was 92 years old and made good use of virtually every day in his long life.
A graduate of Boston College and Suffolk Law School, Mr. Muse was a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II and, as Jack Thomas wrote in a profile of the family, he and Mary “were in concert long before they wed in 1944”; after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bob joined the Marines and Mary enlisted with the Navy’s Waves.
On his return home, Mr. Muse went to law school and then began a defense practice that saw him work some 1,000 trials before he retired in 2008 at age 88. For her part, Mary, a graduate of Emmanuel College and BC Law School, went onto serve on the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court bench and a career that made her a model for women in the law and a tireless activist for many community causes.

Peter Muse, Esq., dies 16 days after his father

Peter Muse, an attorney and one of 11 children of Robert and Mary Muse, died on Dec. 14, 16 days after his father of the effects of a brain tumor. He leaves his wife Deborah (Greene), and his children, Peter J.C., Stephen Patrick T., Rita Claire, Michael V.R., and Maureen D. Muse.