March 29, 2024

Alice Faber

Greenfield

Alice Faber, 93, of Greenfield died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, at the Good Samaritan Society in Fontanelle.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. today at the Steen Funeral Home, 101 S.E. Fourth St., in Greenfield with burial at the Greenfield Cemetery. A luncheon will be held at the Greenfield United Methodist Church following the burial. The Rev. Eric Schubert will officiate the service. Memorials may be left to the Greenfield United Methodist Church. Online condolences may be left at www.steenfunerals.com.

Alice Lucille Faber, daughter of Cornelius William Hogan and Electa (Barrowcliff) Hogan was born Aug. 23, 1922, on the family farm in Adair County. She graduated from Richland High School in 1940 and attended a semester at Creston Community College. Alice was baptized in 1947 and became a member of Penn Avenue Methodist Church in Richland Township.

On Sept.15, 1952, Alice married Melvin L. (Sam) Faber in Bedford. They lived on and farmed the same farm where Alice was born until 1979, when they moved to Greenfield. She was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Fontanelle and the Thursday Afternoon Club and held several offices.

Alice is survived by her daughter Carol Ott and husband Bill of Creston; son Michael Faber of Missouri; two grandchildren, Stephanie Giesken and husband Nick and Angie Williamson, all of Creston; seven great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Helen E. Faber of Ruthven and Dorothy Rude of Portland, Ore.; several nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband Sam; her parents; grandson Ryan Ott; brothers, Maurice (Grace) Hogan and Don (Alice)Hogan; niece Norma Tanner; nephews, Dennis Hogan, Larry Hogan and Greg Rude; mother- and father-in-law, Faye and Glen Faber;  sister-in-law Helen L. Faber; brothers-in-law, John Faber,  Merlin Faber and Ernest Rude and sister-in-law Marie and husband Don Sackett.