When he died in 1996 he was the oldest of the 117 active and retired United Methodist Bishops at that time, as well as the last one elected during the decade of the 1940s.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Wicke was survived by their two daughters (of Basking Ridge, New Jersey and Fort Wayne, Indiana, respectively), and by a sister, Mrs. Charles McClean of Waterville.
A memorial service celebrating her life was held 18 July 2002 at the Westminster Thurber Retirement Community [1] in Columbus.
Wicke served two years in the Central German Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a pastor in Terre Haute, Indiana and in Chili, Ohio.
Following seminary graduation, he was ordained an elder in the Newark Annual Conference by Adna Wright Leonard.
Dr. Lloyd Christ Wicke was elected to the episcopacy of The Methodist Church by the 1948 Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference.
Bishop Wicke served as president of the General Boards of Church and Society and of Global Ministries of the U.M.
Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke died 29 December 1996 in Columbus, Ohio at the age of ninety-five.
He was survived by his wife, Eunice Ensley Wicke; by his two daughters, Shirley Jane Shoaf and Elaine Nalda Cowen; and by seven grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, four stepchildren and eleven step-grandchildren.