Obituary - Alvin Steven Faber

Monday, March 12, 2001
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

Southeast Alaska resident Alvin S. Faber, 73, died Feb. 21, 2001, in Seattle.

He was born July 29, 1927, in Metlakatla. He attended Sheldon Jackson High School in Sitka and served his country in the Merchant Marines. He worked as a lineman for the Community of Metlakatla in the 1960s. He was also a longshoreman, and was president of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen Union, Local 62A of Metlakatla.

He resided in Metlakatla until his retirement and moved to Seattle. He was a member of the Duncan Memorial Church of Metlakatla and he attended the Native Assembly and All Tribes Church in Seattle with his sister Marilyn.

He enjoyed reading and he loved to walk and make new friends. He made a lot of friends while he lived in Seattle and this made his retirement years enjoyable, his family wrote. They added that he had a great sense of humor and was always making them laugh.

He was the son of Steven Booth-Faber and Sarah Alford-Faber and the grandson of Josiah Booth and Sarah Carter-Booth and William Alford and Hannah Hayward-Alford. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents, brother, Clyde B. Faber, and sister, Velma B. Faber-Browne.

He is survived by his daughter, Alva M. Glecker of Seattle; sons Frank A. Faber, Steven L. Faber, Brian T. Faber of Metlakatla and James E. Faber of Seattle; and sisters Bernita Brendible of Metlakatla, Emily K. Bennett of Juneau and Marilyn A. Fawcett of Seattle, also nine grandchildren, several cousins and numerous nephews and nieces.

Services were last month in Metlakatla.

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