FRANCONIA, N.H. – Genevieve Andrews Abbott, formerly of Mechanic Falls, died after a brief illness in Franconia, N.H., on Thursday, Jan. 5.

She was born April 29, 1914, to Henry Asa and Lula G. Andrews, in Oxford, Maine. She lived on the family farm in Oxford, and graduated with valedictory honors from Oxford High School in 1931. She graduated from Farmington Normal School in 1933.

She started her 40-year career as a teacher in Welchville, and taught in South Paris and Gorham. She married Thomas E. Abbott in 1944, and followed his career as a school principal, teaching in Topsfield, Wenham, Cohasset and Scituate, Mass.

They retired to South Sutton, N.H., in 1964, and she continued teaching in Bradford and Sutton, N.H. She was an outstanding primary school teacher and taught many children to read in her long career.

Her husband died in 1971, and she returned to Mechanic Falls in 1988 to be near her sister.

She had lived at the Riverglen House in Littleton, N.H., for the past three years, and was actively leading their daily exercise class until the last week of December. She loved being with her family and cherished her many friends across the New England states.

She was a member of New Hampshire Retired Teachers, National Retired Teachers, Maine Association of Retirees, the Sutton Historical Society and the South Sutton Homesteaders.

She is survived by her daughter, Norrine A. Williams and son-in-law, Paul Williams, of Lower Waterford, Vt.; her sister, Eleanor A. Abbott; two granddaughters, Lissa Modesitt of Savannah, Ga., and Lianne Trombley of Newport, Vt.; one special great-granddaughter, Lauren Trombley; and two nieces, Eleanor Lasky and Sidney Kapinos.

She was predeceased by her parents; and her brother, Wallace H. Andrews.