Dr. Paul R. Wenston

Dr. Paul Robert Wenston age 77, died (after a ten - year experience with Parkinson's Disease) at his home in Sun City in Griffin, Georgia on the morning of Sunday, November 9, 2025.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 28, 1948, to Bob and Joyce Wenston. Paul was the second of five children. A graduate of Friendship Elementary, Peabody High School, University of Pittsburgh (where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa), he then went on to earn a Doctorate of Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1975. Having never even visited Georgia before, he applied to teach at both Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia: after an interview conducted at the Athens Red Lobster, he accepted a position at UGA. He remained a professor in the Department of Mathematics until his retirement in 2006. After retirement, he continued teaching certain courses at the Griffin UGA campus.

A devoted follower of the MSNBC network, Paul was an avid golfer and part of a bowling league. For several years, he was a member of a competitive trivia team. At one time he served as treasurer for the Gardens of Fieldstone HOA in Conyers, Georgia. Paul and his wife loved to travel, including frequent week-end trips to Savannah or Jekyll Island during the working years; multiple excursions to Europe; and an annual trek to Charleston, South Carolina during Thanksgiving week; and an annual journey to New York City in March to see several Broadway plays. In the family, he was known and appreciated for his unlimited knowledge of history and politics, as well as Golden Oldies music. Paul's sense of humor enabled him to face life's adversities.

In addition to his parents, Paul was preceded in death by his brothers, William Wenston and John Wenston, and grandparents, Arnold and Grace Wenston and Charles and Frances Runk.

Surviving Paul is his wife Marci Wendelken, whom he married on June 13, 1992, at Riverdale Presbyterian Church; for over twenty years they made their home in Conyers, Georgia. Other survivors include Paul's brother Tom Wenston and partner Harry Java (Coraopolis, Pennsylvania); his sister Margaret W. McCaulley (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); his mother-in-law Betty C, Wendelken (Jackson, Georgia); his sister-in-law Linda Wendelken Harwell and her husband R. Skylar Harwell (Hampton, Georgia); and nephew Skylar Wendelken Harwell and wife Laura Astacio (Hampton, Georgia).

The family wishes to express appreciation to Guiding Light Hospice (including staff members Certified Nursing Assistant Miss Zuri Farley, Nurse Tamara Gilbert, and Chaplain Ernest Bell) as well as Visiting Angel Pauline Kuyateh.

Paul's cremains will be interred in the Wendelken family plot at Goshen Cemetery in Rincon, Georgia. To honor Paul Wenston's memory, one could make a donation to The Michael J. Fox Foundation or National Parkinson Foundation.