Xaverian Brother Charles Warthen dies at 92

A memorial service for Xaverian Brother Charles (Dean) Warthen will be offered April 18 at 11 a.m. at the Mount St. Joseph High School Chapel in Irvington. His funeral Mass was previously offered in Virginia Beach, Va. Brother Charles died March 16. He was 92.

Born in Baltimore, Brother Charles first encountered the Xaverian Brothers as a freshman in 1947 at Mount St. Joseph High School in Baltimore. After graduating, he entered the religious community’s Sacred Heart Novitiate in Fort Monroe, Va., where on March 19, 1952 he received the religious habit of the Xaverian Brothers and the religious name Brother Dean.  

Brother Charles continued his formation at Xaverian College in Silver Spring and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish in 1957. He later earned a master’s degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1962 and pursued further studies at St. John’s University in New York and Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1979, he completed a master’s degree in social work in gerontology at The Catholic University of America.

Brother Charles was a faculty member at Mount St. Joseph from 1965 to 1971.  Elsewhere, he served in Massachusetts, Virginia, New York and the Archdiocese of Washington.

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