{"id":10076,"date":"2022-06-17T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funeral.lk\/listing\/mr-lekamge-edward\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:19:12","slug":"mr-lekamge-edward","status":"publish","type":"rtcl_listing","link":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/listing\/mr-lekamge-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"MR. LEKAMGE,\u200b EDWARD\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEKAMGE,\u200b EDWARD\u00a0&#8211; Passed away peacefully at home in Brunswick Melbourne on 4 June 2022,\u200b age 93. Loving son of (late) School Principal Alfred James Lekamge and (late) Bandara Manike Lekamge (Hanguranketha),\u200b (Former) Teacher and (Former) Hostel Master,\u200b Carey College,\u200b Colombo from 1950 &#8211; 1958. (Former) Boxing Master,\u200b Carey College,\u200b Colombo from 1956 &#8211; 1958. (Former) Teacher S. Thomas\u2019 College,\u200b Mount Lavinia from 1960 &#8211; 1978 and Teacher Training at Peradeniya English Teachers Training College. Contested for Galigamuwa Parliamentary seat in the 1960 March election. During this time he was a Law student at Sri Lanka Law College and he migrated to Australia in 1978. He graduated (Bachelor of Arts,\u200b Anthropology) from Deaking University in Melbourne in 1988. (Retired Mail Officer Australia Post,\u200b Melbourne. After his retirement he enjoyed helping children at Children\u2019s crossings in local schools as a School Crossing Supervisor. Animal lover and a great Donor to many charities around th<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-10076","rtcl_listing","type-rtcl_listing","status-publish","hentry","rtcl_category-ob-na","rtcl_location-australia","rtcl_location-overseas","listing-item","rtcl-listing-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/10076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rtcl_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/10076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}