Faller was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1927,[1] the son of William and Cecilia.
[3] In 1945, Faller joined the U.S. Navy, in which he was stationed on the aircraft carrier the USS Shangri-La.
[3] Faller began working at FMC Marine Colloids, before becoming assistant manager at F. W. Woolworth department store.
Deciding he wanted to become a printer, he began apprenticeship at Bald Mountain Press in Rockland.
[4] Faller married Helen Sonnenberg in 1952, a year after they met,[4] and the couple moved to St. George, Maine,[4] to live and raise their family of three daughters and one son.