Peter John "PJ" Feeney Jr.

EASTHAM - Peter John 'PJ' Feeney, Jr., 60, formerly of Wellesley, died at Cape Cod Hospital on Sunday, April 29, 2007.

PJ was born on August 25, 1946, in Boston, and grew up in Dorchester, Hingham, Westboro, and Wellesley.

He graduated from Wellesley High School in 1964 and received his B.A. in history in 1969 and M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1975.

After teaching high school students in Philadelphia, (The School Without Walls, Parkway Program) and Newport, Vt., PJ joined the Peace Corps and served in Malacca, Malaysia, with the focus on public-health education.

His international career later included aid-related projects for public health (for example, gravity-feed water supply systems in rural areas) and public-health education in Jumla, Nepal; Kota Kinabalu (Sabah), Malaysia; Tanzania; and Haiti (Eye Care organization).

PJ was fluent in the Malay language. He also spent time in Homer, Alaska, with a king-crab cannery operation.

More recently, he ran a landscaping business on Cape Cod, managed operations for a recycling business south of Boston, and worked in marketing for a computer software firm in the Washington, D.C., area.

PJ was an adventurous traveler, a rugged hiker and cross-country skier, a voracious reader, and a captivating storyteller. He ran the Boston Marathon, and hiked the Long Trail from the Massachusetts-Vermont border to the Canadian border.

He was an avid chess player (including blindfolded), who taught the game's strategy to many others via chess clinics.

In his later years, PJ enjoyed sailing with the Nauset Sea Scouts, including cruises to Maine and with the Tall Ships in Boston and New York.

He was a member of the Orleans-Eastham Elks Club.

PJ is survived by his mother, Lillian Pearl Feeney; his sisters, Maureen Holmes, Joanne Petersen, and Cheryl Feeney; his brother, Jim Feeney; sister-in-law, Kyoko Feeney; son, Faresh Onn, his companion, Elizabeth Rowley, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

He was predeceased by his father, Peter John Feeney.

PJ was a loyal friend and leaves many friends on Cape Cod, in the Boston area, around New England, the United States, and in the aforementioned foreign countries.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115; or to the First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Harwich Road, Brewster, MA 02631.

A memorial service will be held at First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Church, 1969 Main St., Brewster on Friday, May 11 at 11 a.m., with a lunch reception to be held immediately afterward at the Old Sea Pines Inn, 2553 Main St., Brewster.

Arrangements by Nickerson Funeral Home, Orleans, 508-255-0259.