Hilda Feliciano, who left Mayaguez, Puerto Rico for Chelsea in 1979 and spent the next 47 years keeping a house that took in her own six children and a good many other people’s, died at her home in Chelsea on November 2, 2026. She was 80.
She was born in Mayaguez on February 1, 1946, the only child of the late Tomas Andujar, who raised her. She married there and had started her family before the move north. In Chelsea she kept raising children, her own and the relatives’ children who ended up at her table, and ran the household full time. Her pleasures were small and particular: rare coins, which she collected, and a shelf of records she played often enough that the music became part of the house.
She leaves her children, Frances Martinez, Jefferson Feliciano, Sigfredo Feliciano Andujar, Diana Feliciano, Jessica Feliciano and Matthew Feliciano. Her grandchildren are Eliana Acevedo, Xavier Acevedo, Robert Justiniano, Nunea Justiniano and Becca Coughlan Feliciano, and her great-grandchildren are Moises Griffin Feliciano, Ava Marie Acevedo and Aria Acevedo.
Calling hours are Tuesday, November 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Welsh Funeral Home, 718 Broadway, Chelsea. Services conclude at the funeral home.
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