{"id":55975,"date":"2026-04-15T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=55975"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:56:10","slug":"ronald-ray-tojo-meeks-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/ronald-ray-tojo-meeks-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Ray \u201cTojo\u201d Meeks, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Ray \u201cTojo\u201d Meeks, Jr., age 48 of Battletown, passed away on April 13, 2026.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was born on July 9, 1977, in Breckinridge County. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Cliff and Juanita Meeks.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Four children: Alyssa, Alex, Brooklyn, and Briar;<\/p>\n<p>His parents: Terri Allen and Ronald Ray Meeks, Sr.; <\/p>\n<p>One brother: Jesse Meeks;<\/p>\n<p>Two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at the Hager Funeral Home in Brandenburg. Burial will follow in Bald Knob Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 11:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Friday, and from 9 a.m. until the time of service on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagerfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Ray \u201cTojo\u201d Meeks, Jr., age 48 of Battletown, passed away on April 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituaries","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Funeral-Rose.jpg?fit=425%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-eyP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-04-26 21:49:55","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55976,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975\/revisions\/55976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}