She was born Nov. 18, 1937, in Mankato, Minn., and grew up on a farm near East Chain, where she graduated from high school. Karin moved to St. Paul where she attended St. Paul Bible College and then studied at Mounds Midway School of Nursing, earning a BSN. It was a decades long enjoyable career until retiring from Presbyterian Homes. Her entire adult life was dedicated to volunteer service at inner-city missions such as the Union Gospel Mission, the Marie Sandvik Center and the Chapel of Hope in Minneapolis. She loved traveling, and now she has taken the ultimate vacation, as she wrote in her notes for her own obituary, “to heaven.” She found great enjoyment in playing piano at Church, Union Gospel Mission and Episcopal Homes Events. She was a member of the Central Baptist Church Choir and loved jigsaw puzzles, word puzzles, and needlework. Karin was selfless and giving, dedicated to family and friends, and enjoyed interacting with people. She lived a positive, cheerful, Christ-centered life.

Karin was preceded in death by parents, Eunice (Jensen) and Claude Faugust; stepmother, Betty Faugust; sister, Debra; uncles and aunts, Charlie and Pearl Faugust, Charles and Helen Ward; cousins, Bud and Loren Ward; friends, Jeanne Bjorkman and Carol Olson. She is survived by cousins, JoD, Steve, Kim, Lisa, Hannah and Brian Ward, Christy, Jim and Jeff Ficken; and friends, Norma Jean, Velda and Fran.

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