Charlotte Hauser, 88, of Des Moines and formerly of Grinnell and Laurel, died Friday evening, April 15, 2005, at Wesley Acres in Des Moines. Funeral services for Mrs. Hauser will be held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 19, at the United Methodist Church in Laurel with the Rev. Kiboko Kiboko officiating. Organist will be Betty Nikkel. Pallbearers are her grandchildren, Sam, Brad and Carmen Mills, Will and Matt Lukehart and Travis and Alysha Barnhart. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery in Laurel. Memorial contributions may be directed to the United Methodist Church in Laurel. The daughter of John and Charity Ingraham McIlrath, she was born February 19, 1917, in Laurel. She was raised in Laurel and was a 1934 graduate of Laurel High School. She was a graduate of University of Northern Iowa and later received a master's degree at the University of Iowa. She taught school for 12 years in Gilman, Vinton, and Newton. On July 15, 1950, she was married to Rev. Keith Hauser in Laurel. The couple lived in several communities in Northern Iowa where he was a pastor for the United Methodist Church. They retired to Gilman in 1980 and moved to Seeland Park in Grinnell in 1990. For the past several years she had been a resident of Wesley Acres. She was a member of the United Methodist Church where she was active with the United Methodist Women and taught Sunday school and Bible studies. She was also a member of Delta Pi Epsilon. Survivors include two children, Ida Mills of Elk River, Minnesota and David Lukehart of Waukee; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1994; and four sisters, Mary Adkins, Ida Lukehart, Daisy Smith, and Ruby McIlrath.