Emma Anne Faist Nelson
February 1992 – June 28, 2021
Springfield, Illinois
Emma Anne Nelson, nee Faist, 29, of Chatham, IL, born February 1992, in Belleville, IL, passed away Monday, June 28, 2021; at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, IL due to complications following childbirth.
Emma attended Belleville East High School and graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s in hospitality management. She pursued many work passions managing food and beverage for Saint Louis University and Washington University. She moved to Chatham, Illinois where she started working for Bunn-O-Matic in 2017. In 2019 she married her husband, Seth Nelson. She sought out many volunteer opportunities with Habitat for Humanity and sacrificed a Thanksgiving at home to cook on board a Navy ship. She loved hosting family and friends at her home, the Lake of the Ozarks, and anywhere where the people she cared about gathered. She enjoyed music and played guitar. Her interests go on to include golf, cooking, lazy mornings, Siamese cats, traveling, and true crime documentaries.
She was preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Norma J. Graebe and paternal grandfather, David E. Faist.
Surviving are her husband, Seth R. Nelson of Chatham, IL; son, Jack Robert Nelson; parents, Stephen and Nancy, nee Graebe, Faist of Key Largo, FL; brother, William (Serina) Faist of Bentonville, AR; twin-sister, Charlotte Faist of Belleville, IL; maternal grandfather, Robert H. Graebe of Belleville, IL; paternal grandmother, Anne E. Faist of Belleville, IL; mother and father in-law, Joan and Robert Nelson of Pawnee, IL; grandmothers-in-law, Rita Nelson of Auburn, IL and Eulalia Zumberger of Anna, OH.
Source: The State Journal-Register