Jeannette Charlotte Wheaton of Laguna Woods, Calif., died of a brief illness Oct. 2, 2008. Known to her family as Charlotte, she was born to Charles and Nancy McCaig Wheaton on Sept. 12, 1909, in St. Johnsbury. Charlotte graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy with the class of 1928 and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1930s. She was employed in the jewelry business and then became a trust administrator in North Hollywood. Charlotte also worked for IBM and Ceridian Corporation. She retired in 1984 to Laguna Woods, Calif. She is survived by her sister Helen Desrochers of St. Johnsbury; five nieces Janet Liberty of Springfield, Colleen Page and husband Burns of Berlin, Nancy Moore of Lyndonville, Louise Beddow of Malibu, Calif., and Sylvia Levere of Endicott, N.Y.; three nephews Robert Gallagher and wife Ruth of Loudonville, N.Y., Richard Miller and wife Carol of Exeter, N.H., Normand Desrochers of Montpelier; and devoted friend and caretaker, Estella Diaz of Anaheim, Calif. She is predeceased by her sisters Doris Moore, Marion Miller, Ruby Smythe, and Martha Gallagher, all formerly of Vermont. Funeral services will be held in St. Johnsbury at the Sayles Funeral Home Saturday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. Charlotte will be buried in the family plot at the Passumpsic Cemetery. The family requests remembrance donations be directed to St. Andrews Church in St. Johnsbury.