{"id":20876,"date":"2025-10-23T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/listing\/mr-ratnayake-ernest-joseph\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:37:05","slug":"mr-ratnayake-ernest-joseph","status":"publish","type":"rtcl_listing","link":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/listing\/mr-ratnayake-ernest-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"MR. RATNAYAKE \u2013 ERNEST JOSEPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RATNAYAKE \u2013 ERNEST JOSEPH<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Former Director of CTC (1939-2025). Beloved husband of the late Maria\u00a0 Chandrani,\u200b son of the late Joseph Reginald and Elrie Gladys Ratnayake,\u200b passed away peacefully on 21st October 2025. Loving father of Laki,\u200b Surani,\u200b Niranjan and Shanali and cherished grandfather of Savannah,\u200b Tanja,\u200b Aaron,\u200b Jonathon,\u200b Shaniya,\u200b Diren and Avani. His gentle spirit and devotion to family will be deeply missed. Remains lie at his residence\u00a0214,\u200b\u00a0Kotagedara Road,\u200b\u00a0Batakaththara,\u200b\u00a0Madapatha,\u200b\u00a0Piliyandala.\u00a0Funeral cortege leaves residence at 2.45 p.m. for Service at Our Lady of Lourdes Church,\u200b Kotagedera Road,\u200b Piliyandala at 3.00 p.m. on Thursday,\u200b 23rd October 2025. Cremation at Mount Lavinia Crematorium at 5.00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-20876","rtcl_listing","type-rtcl_listing","status-publish","hentry","rtcl_category-ob-chr","rtcl_location-western-province","listing-item","rtcl-listing-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/20876","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=20876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/20876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}