Charles Oren Faris died on January 29, 2013 at the Harbor Care unit of Regency at Whidbey in Oak Harbor.

Charles was born on September 8, 1924 at New Plymouth, Idaho. His parents were Brady and Alta Stuart Faris. He had an elder brother, Robert E. Faris and a younger sister, Ruth Faris Methany, both of whom predeceased him.

He served in the US Army Air Corps from 1943-1946. He then graduated from Oregon State University as a civil engineer. He worked on the construction of Bhakra Dam in India in the early 1950s, then for Morrison Knudsen, Inc. (1955-1964) and Dravo Corporation (1964-1971) in a division established in Bellevue. He later established an international consulting practice in civil engineering, first as Hamlin-Faris International, Inc. and then as Faris Associates, Inc. from 1971 to 2005, both located in Bellevue.

His professional associations included Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Concrete Institute and the US Committee on Large Dams.

He married Dorothy Phillips in 1979. They enjoyed many years of traveling together. In 2010 they moved to Regency at Oak Harbor.

Charles is survived by his wife Dorothy; by his daughters from his previous marriage to Claire Schroff Ellen Faris and Nancy Faris Boggs; his grandson Malcolm Sturgis, his wife Micah Toomey and their children Annabel and Ian and his grandson Charles Sturgis.