Louisan E. Mamer

Louisan Elizabeth Mamer (August 28, 1910 – 2005) was an American home economist and writer. She primarily worked for the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) from 1935 to 1981. Her work on the REA Farm Equipment Show helped educate close to a million rural people on electricity and the utility of electrical appliances in the household.

Early life Louisan Elizabeth Mamer was born on August 28, 1910, in southern Illinois. She grew up on a farm in Hardin, Illinois, without electricity and running water. She came from a family with 12 home economists or homemaker and family development professionals. She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's College of Agriculture with a Bachelor of Arts in home economics in 1931. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She was also a member of student council and Phi Upsilon Omicron. She was then a writer for the National Youth Administration, a New Deal program that provided work and education for the youth. She primarily worked in Washington, D.C. Following World War II, she demonstrated electrical lighting and kitchen appliances and continued to educate rural women on the electrified home.

Mamer died in 2005, at the age of 95. Mamer, Louisan E. (May 1948) Practical Home Economics (26), "Methods of Teaching: Home Use of Electricity, Part II"