Patricia Wenig(1936-2015)
- Producer
Patricia Ann Wenig was born on February 13, 1936 in Indianola, Iowa, the daughter of Curtis Meyers and Mabel (Hoffman) Meyers, and raised in Sacramento, California. In 1955 she went to study at a New York television production school and after graduation began working as a secretary for Benton and Bowles Advertising agency. Seven months later she became a production secretary on the new Proctor & Gamble daytime serial The Edge of Night (1956). After one year she moved to the rank of production assistant on As the World Turns (1956). She left the show after a six-year stint moving to San Francisco where she worked at the CBS affiliate station for one year before going back to New York. She became assistant to the producer on As the World Turns' prime-time spin-off Our Private World (1965). Unemployed due to the cancellation of the show, she received a California call from Ted Corday and soon went to work for him as a production secretary on Columbia Pictures Television's Days of Our Lives (1965) and the short-lived Morning Star (1965)series. She ventured to New York again to function as a production assistant on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967)but returned to the West Coast four months later to be married. She married Michael Wenig on December 9, 1967 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Before joining The Young and the Restless (1973)'s production team in January 1973, she held posts on the production teams of various variety and serial programs. Wenig was an associate producer during the early years of The Young and the Restless, promoted to producer in January 1976 - working closely with legendary producer John Conboy taking care of the day-to-day operations of the then new hit show. She went on to serve as producer and supervising producer for 14 months at Days of our Lives (1981-1982) before moving over to John Conboy's Capitol (1982) as supervising producer from 1982-1986. Then, Wenig left the entertainment industry and moved to the Midwest with her husband and their children Jeff and and Sandy. Patricia Wenig died on March 27, 2015 in Hollister, Missouri, at age 79.
