Glenn Wesley, 59, of Lower Macungie, died Oct. 27, 2017, after a month-long, massive cardiac struggle. He was the husband of Dorothy Jane (Bodnyk). They were married for 36 years. He was the son of Jean Wesley, of King of Prussia and the late Kurt Wesley.

He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1980 and started his career at Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff, and was most recently a senior software developer at Comcast. He taught himself computer programming while at Bell Labs, and rose to director level at Cadence. He was one of the inventors of Formal Equivalence Checking, a technology still used to design complex computer chips.

He was a Renaissance man. He was very active with his sons youth soccer clubs, usually serving as head team coach. He was a member of the original Lehigh Valley Personal Computer Club, past president of the Lehigh Valley Flying Club and was very active in the Lake Nockamixon Sailing Club community. He loved racing his Flying Scot sailboat with his wife as crew. They competed at Lake Nockamixon, as well as numerous East Coast lakes, bays and the Atlantic Ocean, winning many club championships and becoming the 2013 wife-husband champions for the Atlantic Coast.

He was an excellent tennis player and introduced his son to the game. He cared very much about family legacy and prepared an extensive bound Wesley genealogy with cousin Shirley Levyn. He loved planning and taking his wife and son on countless family vacations throughout the U.S. and world over the years.

He was very proud of his son’s academic and entrepreneurship ventures and was an avid supporter and adviser of his son’s startup company, Arovia, and actually named the first product, SPUD (Spontaneous Pop-Up Display).

He is survived by his wife; son, Alexander David, of Houston, Texas; sister, Marilyn Harvey, of Phoenixville; in-laws; aunts and uncles; cousins; nieces and nephews: Erik, Ian, Ellen, Michael, Johanna, Lucas, Catherine, Matthew and Joseph; Alexander’s girlfriend, Leyla Akhverdiyeva. He had wonderful friends who cared about him including neighbors, work, sailing friends and the poker gang. He was very upset by losing both his father in May of this year and his brother Jay, in September.

A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Nov. 4, at the Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral home, 17th & Hamilton streets, Allentown. A calling hour will be held 1 to 2 p.m. in the funeral home.