Faye Marie Kohlmeyer

She was born November 12, 1945 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She was the daughter of Harold and Lillian (Bakken) Troftgruben. Both her parents were 100% Norwegian.

Faye grew up on a small grain and cattle farm in North Dakota. She attended school in a small one room schoolhouse through the 4th grade. She then moved to a grade school with her brothers in a very small town called Edinburg ND. She loved to play “House” in a sandbox even with her 3 brothers. She enjoyed singing in the Odalen Church youth choir and attended Sunday school and played drums in the school band. She loved to meet her friend Helen Mae Nygard in a shelter built halfway between her house and the family farm to pick chokecherries and June berries. She always brought love and encouragement to their family. She loved Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior and shared her faith with many over the years. Faye moved to the Palm Beaches in the late 1960s, and on March 23, 1974, married the love of her life, Fredrick Kohlmeyer. Both Faye and Fred worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.

After Pratt & Whitney, she worked nearly 40 years in her Residential Design role with Casto Homes. She loved helping people complete their dream home. Her responsibility covered all aspects of home design, both interior and exterior. Design activities covered primarily the high end of home design in a wide range of various home designs with numerous international customers.

Faye enjoyed many years of coming home from her residential design work and changing her clothes into her tennis outfits. She and Fred enjoyed numerous tennis league activities with many good friends in North Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens.

Faye was very active at Trinity Methodist Church in Palm Beach Gardens, serving in different capacities and singing in the choir.

Later she and her family joined Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens. There she led many small groups in Women’s Ministry and loved mentoring younger women. Initially she worked in church ministry with Donna Mullins and later with Char Mondul. She developed so many extensive Christian friendships in those many classes at Christ Fellowship.

In 1980, she attended a Via DeCristo weekend and served many leadership roles in this and Walk to Emmaus. She loved the Lord, and was always willing to share her faith with others.

Faye is survived by her husband of 50 years, her son, Ryan Steinolfson, her grandson, Connor Steinolfson, brothers Charles (Chuck,), Irvim, and Hartley Troftgruben, and step children, Carol (Kohlmeyer) Riley, Diane Kohlmeyer, Cliff Kohlmeyer and Clay Kohlmeyer, and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister-in-law Vonnie Troftgruben.