Lois Weiser Luedemann

Born in Oak Park, Illinois on March 22, 1931, Lois grew up on Staten Island, NY. Lois is predeceased by her mother, Naomi Ruth Rutledge Weiser and her father Hanley Hartwell Weiser, her sisters Virginia Weiser and Jeanne Weiser Silverman, and her former husband George Miller Luedemann.

In 1951 she graduated with a BA from Hunter College in Geology and Chemistry, in 1953 an MS from Syracuse University and a PhD from Penn State University in 1956, both in Minerology and Chemistry.

A teaching career at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey spanned the years 1959-1984, where she lived first in Bloomfield and then in Glen Ridge. Lois took great pride in teaching natural sciences to liberal arts students, exciting in them an appreciation of the world around them. She herself was a lifelong learner going on to earn an MBA in Business and Economics, taking coursework in meteorology, geochemistry, oceanography, nuclear physics, and climatology, as well as theory of commodity markets.

After her teaching career Lois moved to Arizona in 1985 where she became an accomplished artist and jewelry maker, using many of her skills and knowledge of the natural world. Lois moved back east in 1996 building a house in Marshall, North Carolina where she lived before settling in Florida in 2005, first in Havana and finally to Westminster Oaks retirement community in Tallahassee.

Having been an avid tennis player much of her life she happily joined the Table Tennis Team at Westminster Oaks, along with the book club, as well as furthering her art in any way she could.

Lois was a lifelong member of Sigma Xi, Sigma Delta Epsilon and American Men and Women in Science.

Lois is survived by her daughter, Anne L. Hunt, son-in-law Timothy Hunt of Virginia, granddaughter Gillian Rutledge Hunt and her partner Cameron Wallace also of Virginia, grandson Colin Hunt and his wife Kimberly Regner Hunt of Vermont, niece Lora Silverman Bronson and nephew David Silverman of CA, and nephew Robert Silverman of AZ.

Through her close connection to our Earth throughout her career she remained concerned about our climate. If you are inclined, please think about donating to a climate action cause of your choice.