March 21, 1929 – December 3, 2022
Wife of Pastor Elmer J. Faust, Wilma Mae Faust passed into eternity peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at American House in Charlevoix, Michigan.
Wilma was surrounded by her loving children. She was 93 years old.
Wilma was born in St. Clair County, Michigan on March 21, 1929, the third of ten children born to Mabel Adelaide and Carl Harris Hulett. Wilma grew up on a family farm during the Depression years where she learned much about life from her parents and hard work. She attended Armada High School where she gained a love for athletics, especially playing basketball. It was during those high school years she met her future husband, Elmer James Faust. After graduating high school in 1947, she attended one year of higher education at Alma College before wedding Elmer in October 1948, and joining him in his pastoral ministry in the United Methodist Church.
From 1950 to 1969, Wilma gave birth to three sons and three daughters. As her children matured, she undertook and completed extensive training in mental healthcare and served as a Mental Health Licensed Practical Nurse in the Michigan State Mental Hospital system for nearly twenty years until retirement in 1988. Throughout these years she was always active in ministry as a pastor’s wife.
Wilma was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 67 years, Elmer; her son, Owen James Faust; her brother Marvin Hulett; and her sisters Marion Boyd and Joyce Gutchess.
Wilma was a wonderful and kind sister and mother and is survived by her sisters; Dawn Summers, Evelyn Wegner, and Linda Willaume; and brothers Reverend Dwayne Hulett, Reverend James Hulett, and Dr. Elwyn Hulett; her five surviving children – Joyce Lorraine Chellis, Judith Ann Jansen and husband James, Randall Scott Faust and wife Teri, Charles Wesley Faust and wife Mary, and Susan Kay Faust; 15 grandchildren, and 41 great-grandchildren (and counting), along with hundreds of other relatives and friends upon whose lives she was a great blessing.
Memorial Services were held at Faith United Methodist Church in Delton, Michigan.
The Faust Family request that memorial gifts be directed in Wilma and Elmer’s names to Eaton Community Palliative Care, 2675 South Cochrane, Charlotte, Michigan 48813. The Faust Family also wishes to extend special thanks to Michigan Hospice Care who provided excellent care and support for Wilma at American House Charlevoix.
Please visit www.williamsgoresfuneral.com to share a memory or leave a condolence message for Wilma’s family.
Last Updated on October 31, 2023