Louis Winfield WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

PHOTO: submitted by Peggy Mueller Fisher

INFO FROM PEGGY MUELLER FISHER: "My grandfather was named after his 2 grandfathers: Louis Fischer and Winfield Wickham. He really never went by Louis. My grandmother called him Winnie."

INFO FROM AARON & KARA PINGEL:
Louis W. Wickham was a pastor in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS),

WWI DRAFT REGISTRATION CARDS, 1917-1918:
Louis Winfield Wickham, 21, resided Palacios, TX; b. July 10, 1897 in Highland Park, IL; father b. Steamboat Rock, IA; employed by St. John's College in Winfield, KS; nearest relative: Arthur E. Wickham of Palacios, TX.

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: I, the undersigned, a Lutheran Pastor hereby certify that on the 16th day of September A.D. 1925 Mr. Rev. Louis Winfield Wickham of St. Louis, State of Mo. and Miss Bertha Hittmeyer of St. Louis, State of Mo. were by me legally joined in Holy Matrimony in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri according to the laws of said State and under authority of a marriage license issued the 14th day of September 1925 by the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri.
Rich Kretzschmar

1930 MO CENSUS, St. Louis city, 2142 Esther Ave: Louis W. Wickham, owned home $3000, 32, married 28, b. IL, minister for church; wife Bertha H,, 28, married 23, b. IL; dau. Elaine M, 3, b. MO; dau. Muriel L., 1, b. MO; ward Isabelle McCausland, 15, b. MO.

CONCORDIA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE, St. Louis, MO:
Records about Rev. Louis Wickham:
After his graduation from the Seminary, he served as City Missionary in St. Louis (ministering to the needy), beginning Sep. 23, 1923.
Beginning Sep. 30, 1930, he served as Superintendent of the Lutheran Children's Friend Society of Missouri (which provided family foster care and adoption services for orphans).
During WW II, beginning in 1942, he served as Chaplain in the U. S. Army.
After the war, beginning in 1947, he served as Executive Secretery of the Children's Friend Society in Cleveland, Ohio.
On Sep. 23, 1951, he began serving as Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Austin, TX. During this time, he also served as Chairman of the Student Aid Board of the LCMS Texas District (from 1954-1957). Following this, he would serve on the Board of Relief in the LCMS Texas District (1957-1966).
He resigned from Christ Lutheran in 1959, but was able to serve as Assistant Pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Mercedes, TX, beginning March 6, 1960.
Then, on July 10, 1960, he began serving as Pastor of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Palacios, TX.
On Sep. 29, 1963, he began serving as Pastor of First Lutheran Church in Rosebud, TX, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Cameron, TX.
Then, in 1966, he retired.
A tract advertising one of his lectures during his time as City Missionary in St. Louis (1923-1930) reads as follows: "Charity Begins at Home"
A LECTURE
Illustrated with Moving Pictures
Under the auspices of the Walther League.
By the Rev. L. W. Wickham
of the St. Louis City Mission
The absorbing story, full of actual and stirring experience, of the fruits of faith of St. Louis Christians in proving their love for the souls and the bodies of needy fellow citizens.
The thrilling plea by a front line worker in the cause to know and support its aims.
Every Lutheran Should Hear this Lecture.
Ebenezer Ev. Luth. Church,
Church & Theobald Ave.,
St. Louis, MO.
December 16
ALL WELCOME
No admission will be charged, but an offering...
(the bottom of the tract is cut off)
(submitted by Aaron & Kara Pingel)

OBIT: St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 2, 1970:
L. W. Wickham Dies; Lutheran Minister
Funeral services for the Rev. Louis. W. Wickham, a Lutheran missionary in St. Louis 40 years ago, will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bopp undertaking establishment, 10610 Manchester Road, Kirkwood. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
The Rev. Mr. Wickham, 72 years old, died yesterday after a heart attack in Parkdale, Ore. He was graduated in 1923 from Concordia Seminary and worked as a city missionary about 10 years. He was an Army chaplain during World War II and later was a pastor in Texas, retiring in 1968.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Elaine Lochhaas, Manchester; Mrs. Muriel Resner, Kingsley, Ia.; Mrs. Richard Mueller, Parkdale, and Mrs. Lois Ellingson, Liberty, Mo.; a brother, George Wickham, Grayville, Ill.; a stepbrother, Leonard Sexton, Springfield, Mo.; and 20 grandchildren.
(submitted by Aaron & Kara Pingel)

SSDI: Louis Wickham, b. July 10, 1897; d. June 1970; issued MO; last residence: Ballwin, St. Louis Co, MO

OR DEATH INDEX 1903-1998:
Louis Win Wickham d. June 1, 1970 in Hood River Co., age 97.

Louis married Bertha Henrietta Marie HITTMEYER on 16 Sep 1925 in St. Louis, St. Louis Co, MO.¹ (Bertha Henrietta Marie HITTMEYER was born on 16 Oct 1901 in Mt. Olive, Macoupin Co, IL ¹ and died on 22 Jan 1968 in Rosebud, Falls Co, TX ⁵.)