Sumner S. Weener, 89, who retired from NBC News in New York in 1986 after a 35-year career as a radio producer, died Nov. 4 at his home in McLean.
He had complications from diabetes, said his wife, Lucille Weener.
Mr. Weener, a McLean resident since 1989, worked for newspapers in Vermont and Rhode Island before he joined NBC News in 1951. He served as an executive producer for a radio program hosted by Morgan Beatty.
Sumner Samuel Weener was a Boston native and a 1947 journalism graduate of Boston University.
During Army service in World War II, he was stationed in Japan and wrote and edited his unit’s newspaper in Okinawa.
He worked as a reporter for the Burlington Free Press and Providence Journal before he was hired at NBC.
His memberships included the National Press Club.
His first wife, Marjorie Houhoulis, died in 1979. Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Lucille Goldfeder Janis Weener of McLean; four stepchildren, Pamela Janis of Washington, Caroline Rimmer of Orgeval, France, Michele Janis of Silver Spring and Gordon Janis of Alexandria; and four grandchildren.
— T. Rees Shapiro
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