Ruth Faust

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Services for Ruth Faust, 73, of Natchez, who died Monday, March 19, 2007, at Promise Specialty Hospital, will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Laird Funeral Home Union Street Chapel with the Rev. Kurt Wilson officiating.

Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Faust was born Dec. 2, 1933, in Meadville, the daughter of Louis Quitman Wactor and Mary McCoy Wactor.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, A. E. “Sonny” Faust; brothers, Floyd Wactor and Willie Wactor; and sister, Allie Mae Wactor.

Survivors include her sons, Arthur E. “Art” Faust Jr. and wife, Linda, of Natchez, Louis O. “Bill” Faust and wife, Janet, of Baytown, Texas and Fred D. Faust and wife, Alexis, of Sealy, Texas; grandsons, Mark Louis Faust, Louis Bill Faust, Correy Dean Faust, Arthur Daniel Faust, Stephen Tyler Faust and Michael Faust; granddaughters, Nicole Lee Faust, Melissa Anne Stogner, Alexis D. Burton and Emily Irene Faust-Griffin; great-grandsons, Tucker Truman Waldins, Aubrey Dale Griffin and Alexander Grey Faust; great-granddaughters, Kimberly Ann Burton, Kate Faust, Abigail Faust, and London Mackenzie Faust; sisters, Madge Martin of Natchez and Bessie Whittington of Monroe; and brother, Julius Wactor of Fenwick.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons.

Honorary pallbearers will be Bobby Priest, Troy Priest Jr., Jerimiah Stogner, Jeremiah Griffin, John W. McGowan, Joe McGowan, Doug McGowan, John Herlihey, Jim Phyfer, Mart Lamar, Billy Dees, David Russell, Woodroe Alexander, J. B. Perry, Willie Queen, Ronnie Carlock, John “Jack” Daniels, Mark Daniels and Billy Martin.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to: Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, 1233 20th Street, NW Suite 402, Washington, D.C.; American Lung Association, 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006; American Heart Association, 1101 North Chase Parkway, Suite 1, Marietta, GA 30067; or the American Diabetes Association, P. O. Box 1131, Fairfax, VA 22038-1131.