Imogene Ruth Albritton Mayer

Imogene Ruth Albritton Mayer (March 7, 1913 - July 10, 1996) was an American philanthropist known for giving over $1.4 million to projects in her hometown of Sikeston, Missouri, notably to the Imogene Ruth Albritton Mayer Center for the Arts and donations to the Missouri Delta Medical Center, Sikeston's hospital.
Albritton graduated from Sikeston High School in 1931. She played on the high school basketball team for four years and in 1928 helped organize the Sikeston Red Peppers, one of the oldest high school spirit organizations west of the Mississippi River. She worked in a state government office at Jefferson City, Missouri, and married Joseph John Mayer, a lifelong Jefferson City hardware merchant.
Some of her gifts included $700,000 to the Sikeston Little Theater for the new performing arts center which opened in 2002, $235,000 to the Sikeston Public Library for purchase and installation of a computer catalog center, $167,000 to purchase new stereotaxic mammography equipment and unit upgrading, $98,000 for exercise machines for the Robert A. Dempster Restart Physical Therapy complex, money for new telemetry monitors for the cardiac wing, a house and lot sold for the Sikeston Humane Society, money to pave the roads at Sikeston Memorial Park Cemetery, a van for the Sikeston First United Methodist Church, a scoreboard for Sikeston girls' basketball gym, and money for the Sikeston Public Schools including annual scholarships in perpetuity.

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