Peter J. Sanderson died at the Kindred Hospital, Boston, on Oct. 26.

Born and raised in Cambridge, he was a graduate of Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School and a member of Harvard University’s class of 1938. He was a 45-year resident of Milton.

Mr. Sanderson was a former engineer at Stone and Webster Co., Boston, and Simplex Corp., Cambridge.

An Army veteran of World War II, he served in the Rhineland and Central Europe.

Husband of the late Susan I. (Conrad) Sanderson, he is survived by his children, Peter J. Sanderson Jr., of Milton, and Susan Sanderson, of Needham.

A funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Agatha Church on Oct. 28. Burial was in Milton Cemetery.