Obit: Maki, Reino (1917 – 1975)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Maki, Groenewold, Santala, Riber, Czeshinski, Milewski, Kangas, Eck, Wetalla, Else, Alich, Kile

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 15 Oct 1975

Maki, Reino (1 JUL 1917 – 11 OCT 1975)

Services for Reino Maki, 58, of Riverside Illinois, formerly of Withee (Clark Co., Wis.), were at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethany Lutheran Church in Owen. Mr. Maki died at 5:20 a.m. Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, where he had been admitted earlier that same day.

The Rev. Douglas R. Groenewold officiated. Burial was in the Withee Riverside Cemetery.

Pallbearers were William T. Maki, Eugene Santala, Carl Riber, Adolph Czeshinski, Joe Milewski and William C. Kangas.

Mr. Maki was born July 1, 1917, at Withee and resided in the Town of Hixon until 1935. He then moved to Gary, Indiana, where he worked in the steel mills. From 1945 until 1975 he worked for Sciaky Brothers Welding Company, Inc., of Clearing, Illinois.

He married the former Margaret Eck on August 15, 1950 at Chicago. She survives.

Other Survivors include a stepson, David Else, Westchester, Illinois; three sisters, Mrs. John (Irene) Wetalla, Kaleva, Michigan, Mrs. George (Laila) Alich, St. Paul, and Mrs. Elvin (Lilly) Kile, Owen; three brothers, Eddie, Pittsburg, California, Martin, Royal Oak, Michigan, and Toivo, Palos Park, Illinois, and two grandchildren.

A stepson preceded him in death.