Gladys Meeks Vindal

Gladys Meeks Vindal, 98, of Asheville, died on Friday, July 3, 2009, at her home following a brief illness. A native of Georgia, Mrs. Vindal was the daughter of the late Charles and Etta Hogan Meeks. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Harold M. Vindal, who died in 1998. Mrs. Vindal graduated from Wesleyan College and from the Library School at Emory University. She retired in 1972 from the Library of the George Washington University. She and her husband spent most of their career years in various Virginia suburbs adjacent to Washington, DC. They then lived in Tallahassee, FL for 18 years before moving to Asheville in 1989, coinciding with their 50th wedding anniversary. She is survived by her sons, William Vindal, of Asheville, and Scott Vindal, daughter-in-law, Angela Montgomery, and granddaughter, Alex Montgomery, all of Asheville; her granddaughter, Christina Vindal Roth and husband Justin, of Los Angeles, CA; and nephews, Edgar Barrett and wife Judy, of Havana, FL, and Charles Jacobson and wife Ardis, of Waunakee, WI. Mrs. Vindal will be interred with her husband, Harold, at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery, in Black Mountain. Groce Funeral Home on Patton Ave. is assisting the family.