Victoria “Vickie” Ann Watson Meindl, 57, died Thursday, March 11, 2010. Born in Rantoul, Ill., she was the daughter of Edna Lorraine Williams Watson and the late Robert Wray Watson. She was the wife and best friend of Eric Meindl.

Meindl graduated from Jackson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Miami, Fla., in 1973. She was a registered nurse who specialized in obstetrical and newborn nursing services. She was a staff nurse at Tampa General Hospital in Florida and Women’s Hospital in Baton Rouge. She was a neonatal intensive care nurse at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Alaksa, and coordinator of the Alaska Newborn Transport Team. She was a full time Ob/Gyn staff nurse and weekend house supervisor at Slidell Memorial Hospital in Slidell and maternal/ child nursing director and patient quality assurance officer/HIPPA privacy officer at Hancock Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

Meindl enjoyed traveling, especially trans-Atlantic ocean cruises, the performing arts and was a Peace Center “Peacekeeper” along with her husband.She loved to read, enjoyed jewelry making and briefly owned a small business, “Victoria’s Cottage” in Waveland, Miss. She loved small children and helping people who needed assistance in hard times, loved animals and, with her husband, was a volunteer transporting cats from the Greenville Humane Society shelter to no-kill facilities in North Carolina. Meindl was of the Catholic faith and was a Eucharistic Minister at St. Clare’s Catholic Church in Waveland.

She was a past member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses, past member of Coast Chorale, Mississippi Gulf Coast, and past member of Krewe of Nereids, Bay St. Louis.

The family would like to thank her Greenville area family and friends who rescued her family with comfort, shelter, supplies and replaced many lost family photos following Hurricane Katrina; and special thanks to the staff of Greenville Memorial Hospital and Hospice of the Upstate in Anderson for their kindness and extraordinary care.

Surviving, in addition to her mother and husband are a son, Patrick Meindl and his wife Rosie of Easley.

A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Greenville, S.C., with visitation following the service until 5 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Rainey Hospice House, 1835 Rogers Road, Anderson, SC 29621; South Carolina Ovarian Cancer Foundation, P O Box 6531, Greenville, SC 29606 or an animal care organization of one’s choice.

Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.thomasmcafee.com.