Private celebrations of life will be held with family and close friends in California and Wisconsin.

Peter J. Maki was born on May 16, 1948, in Owen, Wisc., in the house built by his Finnish immigrant grandparents who had homesteaded the land. Peter grew up milking cows for the family’s dairy, raising cattle for 4-H, playing the tuba in the school band, and wrestling. After graduating in 1966 from Owen-Withee High School, he enrolled at UW-River Falls, where he studied mathematics, joined the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity and met his future wife, Cindy Wyatt.

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