The Lois Deicke Fund for Ethics Education honors the character and the legacy of Lois Deicke’s life. Lois was a cheerful giver. She took great pleasure in locating worthy charitable opportunities, and she eagerly made substantial contributions to help others. Along with her husband, Edwin, Lois joyfully distributed the wealth they earned through private business and a family farm. After his death in 1984, Lois maintained the generous pattern of giving established during her married life. In her will, she writes, "I have fought a good fight, have finished my course and have kept the faith. I ask the forgiveness of the world for not contributing more, but I have tried to relieve the suffering when possible. ... In finishing, my legacy is that I am leaving this world in a little better shape than when I arrived." Mr. Jim Anderson, Edwin and Lois’s close friend and President of the Deicke Foundation, says about Lois: "She was a wonderful lady who practiced a very modest lifestyle in an effort to give care to so many people who were less fortunate than she. She had a great determination to do good."

The Lois Deicke Student Fellow Edowment Fund will honor Lois by providing financial support for one or more Wheaton College students to work with the programs and activities of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE). As a condition for holding this appointment, the student must: