{"id":14452,"date":"2023-09-01T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/listing\/mr-kanapathipillai-senpagavaratha-senathirajah\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:54:06","slug":"mr-kanapathipillai-senpagavaratha-senathirajah","status":"publish","type":"rtcl_listing","link":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/listing\/mr-kanapathipillai-senpagavaratha-senathirajah\/","title":{"rendered":"MR. KANAPATHIPILLAI SENPAGAVARATHA SENATHIRAJAH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Kanapathipillai Senpagavaratha Senathirajah (Sen)\u00a0was born in Alaveddy, Sri Lanka, to Kanagamuthu and\u00a0 Vidania(JP) Kanapathipillai, and had two sisters Saraswati and Vallinayaki.\u202f<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSen attended St. Henry\u2019s College Ilavalai, and then Ceylon Technical College, studying engineering and drafting.\u00a0He worked as a town planning inspector. He then left Sri Lanka to do an Engineering certification in England in 1952 and help to rebuild England after the war, finding a welcoming country.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe passed away in Toronto, Canada on August 24, 2023, at the age of 97.\u00a0 His family was one of the first Sri Lankan Tamil families in Toronto and he and his wife, Nalla, were passionate about building cultural and religious organizations.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe married Nallamma Subramaniam in New York City in 1954, coming to join her at Ohio State University, where he obtained a master\u2019s degree in Civil Engineering.\u00a0 His daughter Yalini was born in 1957.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe couple moved back to the UK that year, settli<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-14452","rtcl_listing","type-rtcl_listing","status-publish","hentry","rtcl_category-ob-chr","rtcl_location-canada","rtcl_location-overseas","listing-item","rtcl-listing-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/14452","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/14452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}