Former daytime soap opera producer Patricia Wenig died on Friday, March 27 at Point Lookout Nursing & Rehab in Hollister, Missouri. She was 79.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.
Just before her 20th birthday, 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 daytime serial, The Edge of Night, a position she held for one year. Next came a six-year stint as a production assistant on As the World Turns.
Wenig later returned to San Francisco where she worked at the CBS affiliate station for one year before going back to New York where she was the assistant to the producer on As the World Turns primetime spinoff Our Private World.
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 and the short-lived Morning Star series. She later joined Chuck Barris Productions where her assignments included chaperoning the Dating Game contestant winners.
She ventured to New York again to function as a production assistant on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing but returned four months later to be married. She married Michael Wenig on December 9, 1967 in Las Vegas, Nevada.