Elizabeth Ann "Beth" (Gross) Faust

Florence - 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 Highschool 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 - eventually serving as the Director of Nurses at Fairhaven Nursing Home in Rockford, Illinois.

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 Stevensville Quilters, Stevensville and 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. She was a part of the Revive Bitterroot church family, making many friends through the ladies Bible study.

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, Arianna Weberg, Josaih 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 Beverly Miller.

In Illinois: Services will be held at City First Church in Rockford on Monday, September 8, 2025, with visitation at 10:30 AM and funeral beginning at 11:30 AM. Interment will follow at the Scandinavian Cemetery on Rural Street. In Montana: There will be a Celebration of Life Tuesday September 23, 2025 at10:30 A.M. at Revive Bitterroot, 3885 US Hwy 93, Stevensville (across from Super 1). In lieu of flowers, Beth desired that gifts be given to foreign missions at Revive Bitterroot.

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