Ernest “Ernie” Mayer
January 9, 1939 - July 1, 2023
Ernest “Ernie” Mayer, age 84, of Newark, DE, passed away at his home on Saturday, July 1, 2023.
Born in New York City, NY on January 9, 1939, he was the son of the late Ernest Mayer and Theresa Dosch Mayer. Ernie graduated valedictorian from Roscoe Central High School and then attended Cornell and Columbia for undergraduate and graduate degrees. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware after moving to Delaware in the 1960’s.
He and his wife, Irene Bogdanowicz Mayer worked together to build a home in Newark while Ernie worked for DuPont. His career at DuPont spanned 50+ years with a brief 2-year stint at Pfizer. At DuPont, he was recognized with many environmental awards and held several patents. After retirement, Ernie launched an engineering consulting practice in solid liquid filtration. At that time, he also began an avid hobby collecting, displaying, and running model trains. He set up highly detailed O-scale layouts at his and his daughter’s home.
In addition to his parents, Ernie was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Irene Mayer. He is survived by son, Eric J. Mayer; daughter, Sandy Mayer; and granddaughter, Loren Mayer McCarthy.
A visitation for family and friends will be held from 10:30 am until 11 am on Thursday, July 13, 2023, at Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home, 121 West Park Place, Newark, DE, where a funeral service will begin at 11 am. Interment will be held privately at All Saints Cemetery.
Bob Watson
RIP Mr and Mrs Mayer, Glad you are together again.
Gene Pelc and family
We were so saddened by the news of Ernie’s death.
Our prayers and condolences are with you at this difficult time.
Don and Becky Johnson
We’re friends with Ernie and Irene early in my career with Du Pont sorry to hear the sad news prayers to Ernie’s family. Irene please accept our Condolences. RIp
Ken Pineault
Ernie was a solid old school engineer who loved hands on work who loved his job and showed it. In my 20+ years supporting the DuPont Edgemoor site Ernie was the filtration expert we regularly consulted. He’d eagerly come out to the site and ‘doctor’ us on what we needed to do to fix things….he was right! Thanks for all your help over the years Ernie and you taught me a lot about equipment, people, and how to be fully engaged to get to the root of the problem. Rest in peace Ernie.
Wenping Li
Dr. Mayer is an important figure in industrial filtration and the filtration community as a dedicated member and contributor for the American Filtration and Separations Society. He had been attended and chairing/presenting at every single AFS Conferences until 2014 when his health prevented him from travelling. I recalled everyone was asking “Where is Dr. Mayer” at that conference. I had opportunity working with Dr. Mayer closely for many years. He was a mentor and good friend. He last reached to me in 2021 asking if we were ok with the Covid as he saw the vaccination rate was low in our state. He will always be remembered!
Reimund Stanik
It was an honor to work with Ernie. His great expertise and excellency lead from a successful business relation into a very good personal friendship. What an amazing person! I am grateful to have had the privilege of knowing him.
I will always remember the wonderful times we had together and will be thankful for this.
My prayers and condolences are with you at this difficult time.
Jim Pileggi
Dear Family,
I am a member of the Hi Railers Train Club and have known Ernie since I joined in 2010. He was a great guy, always wanted to talk about rrains and really cared about the guys in the club. I always had a talk with him at every meeting and he was such a nice guy! I am going to miss him. It was sudden, I guess, because I was surprised to hear about his passing. Please know that he will be missed. Ernie is now with his dear wife. My condolences to his children and grand children. May God bless you all in your sorrow.