Charlotte A. Wyatt

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 19, 2010

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Charlotte Anne Ballard Wyatt, 74, of Nashville, Ind., died Nov. 14, 2010, in Bloomington.

The Noblesville native was born July 4, 1936. Since she was born on the Fourth of July, while growing up, Charlotte always assumed that the fireworks were in her honor. She graduated from the first licensed practical nurse class at Ivy Tech in Bloomington and worked at Bloomington Hospital and nursing homes in Bloomington and Charleston, Ill. She most recently worked for the Brown County Health Department for 30 years as a public health nurse, where she was touched by the many patients she cared for and touched many lives by her tireless efforts to get them the services they needed. She won the 2007 Distinguished Hoosier Award for her many years as a public health nurse and community volunteer. She was a friend to all animals and served on the Board of the Brown County Humane Society and the County Animal Control Board. She was a GED teacher for the Brown County Literacy Coalition program at the county jail, which she dearly loved doing. She was always on time, opinionated, to the point, occasionally off center and sometimes a bit strange. She loved Elvis and cherished memories of her trip to Graceland. She was a daughter of the late John Hugh Ballard and Ruth Irene Branigan Ballard. She was preceded in death by a nephew, Brian Earles.

She donated her body to science for the Anatomy Sharing Network.

Survivors include her children, Robert Wyatt and his wife, Robin, of Bowling Green, Ky., Beth Harris and her husband, Michael, of Unionville, Chuck Wyatt and his wife, Jill, of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Russell Wyatt and his wife, Lissie, and Tony Wyatt and his wife, Lilly, all of Bloomington; 15 grandchildren, Rachel Wyatt Perez, Rainey Wyatt, Joanna Wyatt, Wendy Wyatt Cobb, Glen Wyatt, Jesse Harris, Jabez Harris, Jordan Harris, Chelsea Harris Black, Erika Wyatt Southworth, Jessie Wyatt, Madison Wyatt, Mavey Wyatt Henderson, Koren Wyatt and George Wyatt III; 13 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mary Louise Judy and her husband, Dick, Bonnie Pottschmidt and her husband, Roy, and Sara Earles and her husband, Stanley; and seven nieces and nephews.