Mrs Dean Harden Charles, 81, Brookston, died at 9:25 p.m. Monday in Heritage Healthcare in West Lafayette. She had been a patient there since Aug. 1982 and had been in failing health the past several years.

Mrs Charles was retired from Indiana Veterans Home where she worked in the laundry

She was a native of Indiana and born May 17, 1906. She was first married to Eugene Joseph Turcotte, who died in June 1953. She married Morrison Dale Charles, Oct 22, 1960 and he died Dec 13, 1989.

Mrs Charles was a member of Brookston United Methodist church.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Helen Russell of Brookston; one stepdaughter, Mrs Tom (Ardys) Reed of Peru; a brother, Casey Rardon of Fort Myers, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs Aretta Cox and Mrs Leona McKee, both of Brookston and Mrs Louise Weston of Goshen.

Three grandchildren; Debra Whitaker Dolson, Brookston, Denvil Whitaker, Lakeland, FL, Dwight Dean Whitaker, Brookston. Two great grandchildren; Nathaniel Whitaker, Lakeland, FL and Amanda Whitaker, Brookston. Four stepgrandchildren, seven step great-grandchildren survive. Five brothers, and two sIsters preceded in death.

Services were at 2 p.m. today at Hartzler Funeral Home, Brookston, with the Rev Gene Ansell officiating. Interment was In IOOF Cemetery, Brookston.