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Ronald Meadows Funeral Home Obituaries: Search, Hinton Location, Services & Family Help
People searching for “Ronald Meadows Funeral Home obituaries” are usually looking for Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors & Cremation Care Center at 130 Temple Street, Hinton, WV 25951. The current official phone number is (304) 466-1179.
This guide explains how to find a Ronald Meadows obituary, read visitation and funeral details correctly, avoid confusing the funeral-home address with a rural cemetery, find older memorials, understand the funeral home’s Summers County crematory claim, request current prices, obtain a West Virginia death certificate and route Summers County estate paperwork correctly.
Reviewed September 30, 2026. Funeral schedules, government fees, prices and website content can change. Recheck the live source when the information affects travel, payment or legal paperwork.
Ronald Meadows Obituaries: Four Things to Know First
Verify the Correct Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors
Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors & Cremation Care Center
130 Temple Street
Hinton, WV 25951
Phone: (304) 466-1179
Email: info@ronaldmeadowsfp.com
Official domain: ronaldmeadowsfp.com
Business-history clue
The funeral home’s About page says families have entrusted it with funeral care since 1916 and that its records date back to May 9, 1916.
West Virginia Secretary of State records also identify 130 Temple Street as the principal office address for the business using the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors & Cremation Care Center trade name.
How to Find Ronald Meadows Funeral Home Obituaries
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Open the official obituary directory
Start with ronaldmeadowsfp.com/obituaries rather than a newspaper copy or people-search website.
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Use Search Obituaries
Enter the person’s full commonly published name first.
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Try a simpler name if necessary
Search the surname alone or remove a nickname, middle name or suffix.
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Open “Visit Obituary”
The individual memorial contains the information needed for service-day planning.
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Confirm identity
Compare the name, life dates, Hinton/Summers County connection and family-approved public details.
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Read Funeral Services
Look separately for visitation, funeral, memorial or Celebration of Life entries.
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Read the obituary paragraph for burial
Current memorial event cards often show the funeral-home events while the cemetery name appears in the obituary text.
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Recheck before travel
Use the live official memorial again shortly before an upcoming service.
Search Obituaries → Visit Obituary → verify person → Funeral Services → read the obituary’s burial sentence → save the correct event destination.
Recent September 2026 Memorials Verified During This Review
This is a dated verification snapshot showing that the official obituary directory is active. Use the live directory for anything newer.
What You Can Find on an Official Ronald Meadows Memorial
Funeral Home and Cemetery Can Be Two Different Destinations
Visitation and funeral were listed at Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors Chapel in Hinton. The obituary said burial would follow at Keller Church Cemetery at Talcott.
Visitation and funeral were at 130 Temple Street. Burial was listed separately at Farley Cemetery at River Ridge.
The funeral-home events were in Hinton, while burial was listed at Farley Cemetery at Madams Creek.
The funeral was held at Ronald Meadows, followed by burial at Restwood Memorial Gardens near Hinton.
The memorial listed the funeral at Ronald Meadows followed by burial at Oak Grove Cemetery at Ballengee.
The public visitation and funeral were at Ronald Meadows, while a private burial at Tempa Baptist Church Cemetery was planned for a later date.
For another Appalachian guide where rural cemetery routing matters, see the Haysi Funeral Home obituary guide. The Honaker Funeral Home guide also explains why the funeral-home address and final resting place should be checked separately.
Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors Address & Google Map
Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors
130 Temple Street
Hinton, WV 25951
Phone: (304) 466-1179
Email: info@ronaldmeadowsfp.com
Use this address when
- You are meeting funeral-home staff.
- The memorial explicitly lists Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors.
- The event says Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors Chapel.
Do not automatically use it for the burial.
Parking and Accessible Arrival
The official Ronald Meadows pages reviewed for this article did not publish sufficiently detailed current parking, accessible-entrance or overflow-parking instructions to justify inventing them.
Call before travel and ask where additional vehicles should park.
Ask which entrance provides the easiest access for the guest’s needs.
Do not assume parking at a rural cemetery is the same as parking at the funeral home.
How to Find Older Ronald Meadows Obituaries
Ronald Meadows says its business records date back to May 9, 1916. The current online obituary system also contains memorial pages from many earlier years, but that does not mean every funeral record since 1916 has been digitized online.
- 1Search the official obituary directory
Use the full name first.
- 2Try surname only
Older memorials may use a nickname or different middle-name format.
- 3Search the official domain with the person’s name
This can surface an individual memorial that is difficult to locate through the current directory.
- 4Check older memorial layouts
Historical pages can look different from current “In Loving Memory Of” pages while still being on ronaldmeadowsfp.com.
- 5Contact the funeral home for archival questions
If the person predates the searchable online archive, ask whether an older funeral-home record exists.
The Davis Funeral Home obituary guide covers a similar problem where current and historical memorial layouts do not always look the same.
If a Death Has Just Occurred
Ronald Meadows’ current FAQ says funeral directors can coordinate removal and transfer of the deceased, professional care, family arrangements, burial or cremation planning and required certificates, permits and forms.
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Follow the correct medical or legal release process
The first procedure differs for a hospital, hospice, nursing facility and unexpected or unattended death.
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Check for existing funeral wishes
Look for preplanning documents, cemetery information, insurance or Veteran paperwork.
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Call Ronald Meadows
Use the verified funeral-home number: (304) 466-1179.
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Ask what information the family should prepare
Request the current arrangement checklist instead of assuming every family needs the same documents.
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Ask for current price information
Discuss the family’s actual burial, cremation or memorial choices before relying on an old online estimate.
For a longer first-hours preparation checklist, see the Hazel Green Funeral Home obituary guide.
Ronald Meadows Cremation Services & the Summers County Crematory
The official cremation page describes viewing, visitation or wake and funeral service followed by cremation.
The memorial can be held in the funeral-home chapel, a church or another venue chosen by the family.
The official page describes returning cremated remains to the family, scattering or interment in a columbarium among the possible choices.
Compare traditional funeral followed by cremation with memorial-service choices → decide whether viewing or ceremony matters to the family → request current itemized pricing.
Planning Ahead With Ronald Meadows
The funeral home’s Planning Ahead page says preplanning can document final wishes and reduce decision pressure on relatives. Ronald Meadows provides a secure online preplanning form and says staff can help families make funeral decisions in advance.
Record burial, cremation, funeral, memorial and other ceremony wishes.
The funeral home says advance planning can reduce disagreements about what the deceased wanted.
Enter private preplanning information only through Ronald Meadows’ verified website or directly with staff.
Review the reasons for preplanning → discuss wishes with family → use the secure preplanning form only when ready to provide information directly to Ronald Meadows.
Ronald Meadows Funeral Prices: How to Get Current Costs
| Ask about | Useful question | Why it matters |
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| Basic services | What is the current basic services of funeral director and staff fee? | This is a core funeral-price item. |
| Transfer | What transfer distance is included and when does mileage add a charge? | Families served by Ronald Meadows can be outside Hinton. |
| Viewing / visitation | What preparation, facility and staffing charges apply? | Viewing choices can materially change the total. |
| Burial | Which funeral, hearse and graveside charges apply, and which cemetery expenses are separate? | A family or church cemetery may involve separate costs or arrangements. |
| Cremation | What is the current cost for direct cremation, cremation with a memorial, and funeral followed by cremation? | Ronald Meadows publishes multiple cremation-service formats. |
| Outside costs | Which death certificates, clergy, flowers, newspaper notices or cemetery costs are paid to third parties? | Cash-advance items can change the final total. |
The FTC explains consumers’ rights to accurate funeral price information by telephone and to a written General Price List when making funeral arrangements in person.
Verify a West Virginia Funeral License
The West Virginia Board of Funeral Service Examiners regulates funeral-service professionals, funeral establishments and crematory operators. Its public license-search system lists currently licensed individuals and facilities operating in West Virginia.
Search the public license database when you need to confirm a West Virginia funeral establishment or licensed professional.
179 Summers St., Suite 319
Charleston, WV 25301
Phone: (304) 558-0302
Search by name → open the matching record → verify the current license status before relying on an old directory listing.
How to Get a Death Certificate in Hinton or From West Virginia
Families in Summers County have two useful government routes with different published fees: the Summers County Clerk and the West Virginia Vital Registration Office.
| Route | Current published fee | Address / practical use |
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| Summers County Clerk | $5 per certified death certificate on the county’s current Death Certificate Request Form. | 120 Ballengee Street, Suite 106, Hinton, WV 25951. Phone (304) 466-7104. Useful for Summers County vital-record requests. |
| WV Vital Registration | $12 per certified copy. | 350 Capitol Street, Room 165, Charleston, WV 25301-3701. Same-day walk-in service is currently available for routine in-person requests. |
Summers County Clerk
120 Ballengee Street, Suite 106
Hinton, WV 25951
Phone: (304) 466-7104
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The county’s current request form says to mail check or money order and not cash for mailed requests.
West Virginia Vital Registration
350 Capitol Street, Room 165
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
The state currently charges $12 per copy and requires acceptable identification.
Mail and online/vendor ordering are also available.
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Confirm where the death was registered
Do not assume Summers County only because Ronald Meadows handled the funeral.
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Choose county or state ordering
For a Summers County record, compare the local County Clerk route with the state Vital Registration route.
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Prepare identity and relationship information
The Summers County form asks for the deceased person’s details and the requester’s relationship. The state requires accepted identification.
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Use the current fee for that route
County and state fees are not the same.
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Order only the copies you actually need
Ask banks, insurers, courts and other institutions whether they require a certified copy or will accept another form of proof.
Choose in-person, mail or online ordering → prepare accepted ID → verify the current $12 state fee → submit through the official state route or authorized vendor.
Summers County Wills & Estates After the Funeral
The funeral home can assist with funeral paperwork, but legal authority over an estate comes through the appropriate estate process.
Summers County Clerk
120 Ballengee Street, Suite 106
Hinton, WV 25951
Phone: (304) 466-7104
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Published county function
The Summers County Clerk specifically lists “File wills and estates with the Fiduciary Supervisor” among the services handled through the office.
Call before visiting to ask which original documents, certified death certificate and estate information are required for the situation.
Review the County Clerk page → confirm Summers County is the correct estate jurisdiction → ask for the Fiduciary Supervisor / wills-and-estates process → bring only the documents the office tells you are required.
Social Security & Veteran Family Tasks
Ask the funeral director whether the death is being reported to Social Security. Survivor-benefit questions are a separate federal process and should be handled directly through SSA.
SSA: When Someone DiesRonald Meadows memorials include Veteran families, including 2026 memorials identifying U.S. Army and Vietnam service. Eligible families should use VA.gov to verify military honors, cemetery eligibility, burial flags, memorial items and possible burial allowances.
VA Burial & Memorial BenefitsOfficial Ronald Meadows, Summers County, West Virginia & Federal Resources
Related independent guides on this site include Haysi Funeral Home Obituaries, Honaker Funeral Home Obituaries, Hazel Green Funeral Home Obituaries and Davis Funeral Home Obituaries.