Elizabeth A. "Beth" Faust

Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Faust was 92 years old when her life in Heaven began on August 31, 2025. Beth was born in Orangeville, Illinois, on May 16,1933, to Dale and Josephine (Kilian) Gross. Graduating from Orangeville High School in 1951, Beth attended Deaconess School of Nursing in Freeport, Illinois, and then went on to graduate from Beloit College with her Bachelor of Science in Biology. Beth married William "Bill" Faust on December 6, 1958, and they enjoyed 55 wonderful years together before Bill went to be with Jesus. Beth spent much of her life pouring herself into others from her time teaching at Rockford Memorial Hospital's School of Nursing, to raising her four children, to teaching many children the love of Jesus through volunteering at church and holding the Good News Bible Club in her backyard. After her children were older, she went back to nursing in nursing homes, eventually serving as the Director of Nurses at Fairhaven in Rockford. Besides Jesus and her family, Beth's other love in life was quilting. She spent hours planning, arranging, piecing, sewing and quilting works of art for those she loved. She was a member of the Sinnissippi Quilters Quilt Guild and Christian Comforters Quilt Group in Rockford, Illinois, and later the Bitterroot Quilters Guild in Hamilton, Montana. Beth moved to Florence, Montana, in 2020, where she spent the remaining five years of her life in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley with her daughter Anne and family. Survived by her children, Scott Faust, Anne (Stacy) Ratliff, Amy (Scott) Weberg, and Mary (David) Bowen; her grandchildren, Courtney (Beau) McLean, Calley Ratliff (fiancé, Tim Rosenbaum), Caitlynn (Reagan) Vogl, Nathan (Hailey) Weberg, Andrew Weberg, Ariana Weberg, Josiah Weberg, Brian (Kelsey) Bowen, Jonathan (Lindsay) Bowen, Abigail Bowen, Johanna Bowen, and Emma Bowen; great-grandchildren; Beau Dylan McLean, Celine Weberg, Todd Weberg, and Greer Weberg; nephew, Todd (Inger) Michael; nieces, Michele (David) Kapp and Lori (Mike) Handeland; and many great and great-great nieces and nephews. Beth was proceeded in death by her husband, William Faust; her parents, Dale and Josephine Gross; as well as her sisters, Sandra (Laverne) Michael and Beverley Miller. Services will be held at City First Church, 5950 Spring Creek Road, Rockford, IL 61114, on Monday, September 8, 2025, with visitation at 10:30 AM and funeral beginning at 11:30 AM. Interment will follow at Scandinavian Cemetery on Rural Street, Rockford. In lieu of flowers, Beth desired that gifts be given to Foreign Missions at City First Church. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Elizabeth "Beth" A. Faust, please visit our floral store.