OBITUARY Faith Clare Ross
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Born Faith Clare Mullett on 3 March, 1898, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she graduated from the University of Michigan and married her classmate, Francis E. Ross, in June 1920. The couple remained Ann Arbor residents until retirement in 1962.
At that time they became winter residents of Grand Cayman, at first in their home which they named Casa Caribe, and later in an apartment in the condominium of the same name which replaced it. In the summer of 1990 they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. Francis Ross died in 1991.
Faith Ross was active in a wide variety of fields throughout her life. She did graduate work at the University of Michigan in natural science, wrote poetry, did volunteersocial work with child health and welfare organisations in Michigan, and was active in the League of Women voters there.
Her most abiding interest was in painting. Many of her works have been exhibited and sold in Michigan and on Grand Cayman, and can be found in many private collections. She continued to paint in to her late 80s, when failing eyesight forced her to give it up.
In December of 1993 she was able to visit Cayman once more, and had returned from a last visit to her summer home in Michigan only two weeks before her death. She is survived by three children, Emily Ross Mulloy of Laramie, Wyoming; David of Savannah, Tennessee; and Jaime, of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, as well as seven grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren.
A family memorial service is planned for Higgins Lake, Michigan.
