Scott Harry Faulring Obituary (1956

Scott Harry Faulring, our beloved husband, father, grampa, brother passed away peacefully in the early hours of June 29th, 2018 at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. He will be sorely missed. He had struggled almost 12 years with afflictions from some strokes, and dementia, and had recently been hospitalized losing his big toe from diabetes complications, and then succumbing to pneumonia. We are saddened, but know he is now whole and at peace. He was born Aug. 11, 1956 to Richard James Faulring and Barbara Ruth Faulring in Niagara Falls, NY. On May 27th, 1978, he married the love of his life Barbara Jo Sykes Faulring in the Washington DC Temple in Kensington, MD. They together have 4 beautiful children he cherished. Scott went to SUNY for a few semesters for Accounting, receiving Deans Honors. He then transferred to Brigham Young University where he took Accounting classes, then switched to History and Aero Space Studies and graduated in April 1983. He was commissioned an Air Force Officer at that time from BYU ROTC. He served with his family at his side in Montgomery, AL; Clovis, NM; Izmir, Turkey; Ramstein, Germany; Alamorgordo, NM; then BYU ROTC teaching, where he retired in 1995. He had previously served in the Air Force as a Security Police Officer from 1974 to Aug 1977 in Cheyenne, WY. He also served in Army National Guard of American Fork, UT until changing his major to Aerospace Studies and entering the ROTC program. He also served in Saudi Arabia during the First Gulf War as Accounting and Finance Manager. After retiring from the military he worked at BYU, doing work he loved in teaching Church History and doing research until his strokes in Aug 2006. He wrote several articles on Church History, also helped edit some of the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He received the Edgar T. Lyons award for his article on "The Return of Oliver Cowdery." He also co-edited the large book on "The Joseph Smith Translation." He loved teaching and sharing his knowledge of the Gospel, the Church and its history. Even in his struggles with dementia he could recall Church events, dates and places and loved to talk about it to anyone that would listen. He loved to play practical jokes on co-workers and his antics were duly noted and reciprocated, especially with his cadets at BYU ROTC. The cadets loved to pull pranks at the ROTC Dining Outs, presenting him with Dr Pepper by a cadet in a Superman cape being carried by others like he was flying, to a cadet dressed in scrubs running in with an IV pole and a bottle of Dr Pepper hooked up to it and a clamped tube, to walking in to class and all the cadets standing on their desk yelling "Oh Captain, My Captain!" He is preceded in death by his father Richard James Faulring (Doris), his mother Barbara Ruth Faulring, and his sister Jacqueline Alex (Joe), all of Niagara Falls, NY. He is survived by his love and wife Barbara Jo Sykes Faulring of Orem, UT, his son Jon Scott Faulring of Orem, UT, son Spencer Holcomb Faulring (Renee) of Reading, OH, daughter Tiffany Rochelle Boyce (Matt Jones) of Eagle Mtn, UT, and son Joseph Richard Faulring of Orem, UT. Also his 12 grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, his brother Kent of Anaheim, CA, brother Craig (JoAnn) of Lockport, NY, and brother Brent (Cari) of Atlanta, GA. Memorial services will be held Thursday, July 5th at 7:30 pm at the Timpview 2nd Ward Chapel, 1240 N 950 W, Orem, Utah. Graveside services will be announced when finalized with Full Military Honors. If interested in more of Scott's works of history, there is a Google link Archives West: Scott H. Faulring papers, 1735-2006 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv56411. Condolences may be expressed at www.bergmortuary.com.