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WILLIAMSPORT, IN - Faye Carr made you smile, a fact first evident on March 29, 1950, when Faye Swift (Hoerni) and George Swift introduced her to the world in Louisville, Kentucky. “Little” Faye made many of us smile throughout her life--introducing us to hot browns, Mike Lennig’s Fish Fry, or recounting stories of her and older sister Phyllis watching Muhammad Ali on training runs in Cherokee Park. There were more smiles when Faye’s son Amos (Los Angeles) came into the world.
Faye met her husband Bob in the late 1970s, eliciting smiles that persist even today. It was a softball game on Faye’s birthday, celebrated on a small farm in southern Kentucky, which a warm, loving group of Baltimore hippies shared with the community. A few years later, Faye convinced Bob to return to Purdue University to complete his forestry degree.
In West Lafayette, Faye was once again making smiles as she developed friendships that remain today. When career choices moved Faye and Bob through southern Indiana, the northern forests of the Lake States, Asheville, North Carolina, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then back to Houghton, Michigan, Faye was the glue that cemented friendships and the catalyst that created more. Her love of pottery, music, and nurture of animals was shared with and gifted to her friends. Smiles abounded, both for her friends and for Faye.
Faye’s own smile was broken only when she observed intolerance or injustice. She riled against both. Faye was also instrumental in securing funds for the Copper Country Animal Shelter, an ongoing facility providing new beginnings for lost or abandoned pets and countless smiles for their new family.
Faye left this world Thursday evening, September 17, 2026. She was beautiful even in death. The grief of her loss will be tempered by time, and our smiles will return as we remember Faye’s ever-present, heartwarming smile.
Friends and family joined to lower Faye into her grave beneath the prairie flowers and grasses of the Warren Prairie Sanctuary in Williamsport, Indiana, on Saturday, September 19th. Stories from her days among us brought smiles.
Faye would ask you to remember her for her graciousness, hospitality, and care for those less fortunate. Faye herself supported cancer research, veterinary care, and numerous social justice foundations.
Faye would also want us to be kind to one another and tolerant of other cultures and lifestyles. Most of all, she would want you to remember her with a smile.
You may share memories and offer words of comfort to her family on Faye’s Tribute Wall at www.fisherfuneralchapel.com