When Raymond Grimes Faus was born on 5 November 1895, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States, his father, Francis Henry “Frank” Faus, was 25 and his mother, Corena Grimes, was 24. He married Katherine M. Raidt on 25 December 1920, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. He lived in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 15 December 1956, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States.