Elizabeth Ann Billow was born in Carlisle, Pa January 3, 1913. Her parents, Charles Wilbert Billow and Sara Maria Speck, raised her in Carlisle, Pa. Elizabeth attended Carlisle High School and upon graduation she matriculated to Dickinson College. She graduated in 1934 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. After college she continued to live in Carlisle, Pa with her husband John T. Faller Jr. while she worked as a high school teacher.