Faith died of cancer on October 31, 1991 in a nursing home in Santa Monica, CA USA.

[1] Panton attended McGill University School of Architecture in Montreal, Quebec, Canada[3] graduating as the first female architect in Jamaica as well as in the West Indies.

[1][2][4] Returning to Jamaica in 1964, Panton became a Project Architect for the Ministry of Education until 1968, when she joined as an Associate Partner with the firm of McMorris, Sibley, Robinson (MSR).

Panton left MSR in 1982 and became a Partner and the Director of the Landmark Development Company, where she remained for the next two years, leaving in 1984 to open her own practice.

[2] She was one of the founding members of the Jamaican Architects Registration Board which was formed in 1987 and served in various capacities of leadership.