Charlotte McEnelly Swartz, Oakwood Care Center, 400 West Highway 18, Clear Lake, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008 at the age of 96 years, five months, and 29 days.  According to her wishes, her body has been cremated.  Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa, 206 Highway 69 N, Forest City, IA 50436.
    Charlotte was born Aug. 20, 1911, at Lake Mills, Winnebago County, Iowa, the daughter of Charles Garfield McEnelly and Myrtle Mildred Myers.
    Charlotte graduated from high school at Hanlontown, Iowa then attended commercial art school in Chicago, Ill.  While in Chicago she was an usher in legitimate theater.  She became an accomplished artist and many of her pictures are displayed in several states.  Her paintings received many awards in Iowa and elsewhere.  Among other things, she lettered names of those who served in World War II on Honor Roll boards throughout North Iowa.  She was described in an article in the Mason City Globe Gazette as a “traveling woman painter.”  She worked at numerous occupations while living in Hanlontown, including cook at the local restaurant and in the school lunch program.  She and her husband were very active in the Boy Scout program.  She enjoyed raising flowers and the flowers from her garden brightened many weddings.  For many years in the 40’s and 50’s she was a correspondent from Hanlontown for the Clear Lake Mirror Reporter.
    Following the death of her husband she attended nursing school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, graduating with an LPN degree.  She worked in pediatrics at University Hospitals until her retirement.  She then returned to Mason City.
    She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel Bealor Swartz, whom she married Oct. 14, 1929 at Crown Point, Ind.; her parents; one son, David; one grandson; two great-granddaughters; two brothers, Norman and William and one sister, Mary Ardis.
    She is survived by a daughter, M. Jeanne Sears, of Madison, Wis., two sons, Samuel Bealor (Charlotte Francis) and Daniel Douglas (Shirley Orcutt), both of Clear Lake; also a daughter-in-law, Ruth Ann (Kruse) of Iowa City; 13 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
    Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of arrangements.