ANDOVER – Addie E. Feener, 88, died Monday, Nov. 28, at her home in Andover, in the company of her daughter, Susan and husband, Rick Andersen.

She was born at Andover North Surplus, on the Dunn Farm, Jan. 11, 1917, the daughter of Bert and Helen (Thomas) Dunn. She graduated from Andover High School in 1935.

She married her longtime mate, Kenneth W. Feener, on Sept. 9, 1937, in Andover.

She made a loving home for her husband and children and worked as a homemaker, farmer’s wife, tutor, teacher and all-around support system for her family. As youngsters, her children and their playmates fondly remember her chocolate doughnuts, cookies and special cakes with that great boiled frosting. Her exploding root beer wasn’t bad either!

In the early ’70s, she opened Addie’s Place and for the next 25 years she served up good food and friendship to all who passed through Andover, including innumerable hikers, bikers, truckers, family and friends.

She loved the conversation and friendship, and became known far and wide, thanks to the Internet, for her peanut butter pie. She knit and distributed hundreds of pairs of mittens and slippers, charging about what it cost to make them. For her, it was more about giving than it was about getting.

She will be sorely missed by all who knew her and especially by her children, Judith Ann Ravaris and her husband, Lew, of Kingston, N.H., Michael Kenneth Feener and his wife, Susan, of Readfield, Kathryn Jane LaPointe of Hollister, Fla., and Susan Arvilla Andersen and her husband, Rick, of Andover; grandchildren, Karen McLean with her husband, Chuck, Kim Kittredge, Michael W. Feener with his wife, Missy, and Shawn Feener; great-grandchildren, Anna and Cameron McLean and Karyn Feener. She dearly loved to see these “kids” and all her special friends come through her door for a visit and to have them join her for a sit on the porch.

She was predeceased by her husband, Kenneth; her brothers, Robert, Albert, Harry, Tommy and George; and a sister, Geneva Coleman.

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