Carlisle Edward Fauver

It is with mixed emotions that we announce our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Carl Edward Fauver, has passed into the Lord’s hands on August 15, 2025, at the age of eighty-seven.

Carl led a rich and varied life. From his early years growing up on the west side of Chicago, to his time in Montana, where, after finishing his degree in education, he went to work as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the Native American tribes throughout the state. When the University of Utah asked him to head a new project working with Native American tribes across the Western states, he accepted and moved his young family to Salt Lake City. So began his long and successful career in Vocational Rehabilitation for the State of Utah.

Carl called himself a family man, an “old-car-guy”, a fisherman, a Mason, and a Shriner. He often said that he was one of the luckiest of men because he had been fortunate to have such good women to travel life with him, and that he had had the best of “good men” friends along the way.

His first wife, Joelda Mueller, after thirty-five years of marriage, preceded him in death in 1997. She gave him two sons and staunch support throughout their married life.

He remarried in 1999 to Edie Johnson. She expanded their family by bringing into it three more sons and a daughter. Carl and Edie eventually became the proud grandparents of fifteen grandchildren and five “greats”.

Carl belonged to Mt. Moriah Lodge and became the Master of his Lodge in 1993. His involvement with Shriners Children in Salt Lake City was a mantle he wore with pride. He became a member of the Board of Directors for the hospital, serving for nine years. He was a proud Shriner clown from the tips of his white “Professor Perkins” gloves to his red nose. The people he met along the way through the Masonic and Shriner families were cherished in his heart until his last days.

Carl’s final wish was to have his ashes shared by the family; some taken back to Montana to be placed with his first wife, Joelda. Some will be taken to his lakeside cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, where he spent so many wonderful fishing years with Edie and his grandchildren. And some will simply remain on the mantels of his family in loving memory.

Carl would have wanted to say goodbye to the many friends he cherished throughout his life; the Semonon’s from his early years, all his “old-car-guy” cronies, and including his Masonic and Shriner family friends. In the end, he was ready to leave his frail body and see what the Supreme Being had in store for him next.

Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Memorial Redwood Mortuary, 6500 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, Utah.