{"id":140349,"date":"2015-03-02T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=140349"},"modified":"2015-03-18T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T08:19:41","slug":"prof-senake-bandaranayake-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/prof-senake-bandaranayake-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Senake Bandaranayake Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Senake+Bandaranayake&amp;x=6&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Senake William Dias Bandaranayake<\/span><\/a>, greatly loved husband of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Manel+Fonseka&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Manel Fonseka<\/span><\/a>, beloved son of Dora and William Dias Bandaranayake (both deceased), dearly loved son-in-law of J.V. Fonseka (deceased) and Nikki Fonseka, brother-in-law of Amal and Linda Fonseka, Leela Rajapakse, Sirima and Gehan Sirimanne, beloved uncle of Dinuke Srivardhana, Suresh and Nissanka Rajapakse, Lara Sirimanne, Paul-Pi\u00e8rre and Mich\u00e8lle Fonseka, passed away in his sleep on Monday 2 March.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_140350\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prof.-Senake-Bandaranayake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prof.-Senake-Bandaranayake.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Senake Bandaranayake\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Senake Bandaranayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He will lie at\u00a0Barney Raymond\u2019s from Monday evening until 9.30 am Wednesday morning, when he will be taken to the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology (PGIAR), 407 Bauddhalokha Mw, Colombo 7. Funeral leaves PGIAR at 3.30 pm on Wednesday for cremation at Jawatte\/Torrington Cemetery at 4p.m. No flowers by request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":140350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prof. Senake Bandaranayake Passes Away - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/prof-senake-bandaranayake-passes-away\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prof. Senake Bandaranayake Passes Away - 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