Mary Louise “Weezie” Mullenix, of Charleston, died on February 20, 2025, ending an adventurous, devoted and much appreciated life. She was 82 years old. Weezie is survived by her husband of 61 years, Col. (US Army, Ret.) Ron Mullenix; her younger brother, John Schuyler, III; her two sons, Philip and Matthew; their spouses Cristina and Rochelle; and her four beloved grandchildren: Schuyler, Sterling, Margaret, and Briana Mullenix.
Weezie leaves also a world of close friends and admirers made during her lifelong travels in service of her husband’s military career—and her own, as educator, technical editor, and docent-leader within numerous Episcopal Church congregations.
The daughter of Col. John Schuyler, II, of New York, and the former Margaret Longshore of Montgomery, Alabama, Weezie was raised in post-WWII Atlanta, Georgia, a formative environment that instilled in her an air of Southern gentility and the generous hospitality that would become her hallmarks.
Nonetheless, Weezie would never be mistaken for a wallflower. Dubbed “The Atlanta Flame” by then Ft. Benning’s Commanding Officer during the early years of her marriage to Ron, Weezie was frequently outspoken, firm in her sometimes-contrary opinions, and a staunch defender of the ideals, people, places and things she valued.
She would become the first woman to receive an advanced degree from The Citadel, earning a Master’s in Education during Ron’s tour of duty as leader of that venerable military academy’s ROTC program.
Weezie was an exacting, apparently tireless administrator, as comfortable correcting the abysmal sentence structure of software engineers as she was organizing multiple trans-Atlantic household moves, often while her husband was away on military maneuvers.
In the final decade of her life, Weezie lived near Matt’s family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She and Ron took frequent trips to visit Philip’s family in the Washington D.C. area, and to other parts of the country; and at home, she enjoyed regular visits to the bookstore, attending her reading groups, movies, luncheons at The City Club, and services at St. James Episcopal Church.
A service in Weezie’s honor will be held on March 29, 2025, at 11AM at St. James. All who knew her are welcome. She will be interred shortly thereafter, laid to rest beside her parents’ graves in a military cemetery near Columbus, Georgia.