June 2011
Information from Mary MacPherson Highsmith
Pamela Wilentz, 54, artist, teacher; husband ran Eighth St. Book Shop
Pamela Endacott Wilentz, a sculptor and teacher who lived on W. Eighth St. in the Village where her late husband ran the Eighth St. Paperback Book Shop, died May19 of cancer in Calvary Hospice in the Bronx at the age of 54.
Born in Washington, D.C., to Dorothy Rocklitz Endacott and John Endacott, she earned a bachelors degree from Boston University and studied art at Hartford University. She showed her work at the Hudson Center Gallery in Tribeca and organized shows in the Artists Choice Gallery on Madison Ave.
She was active in the Village Alliance Business Improvement District.
Her husband, Eli Wilentz, who died in 1995, ran the Eighth St. Paperback Bookshop at 17 W. Eighth St. until the mid-1970s.
Her mother, Dorothy, of Arlington, Va., her daughter, Grace, of Manhattan and three stepchildren, Sean, Philip and Eileen Wilentz, survive.
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