{"id":62473,"date":"2021-04-20T05:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T05:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=62473"},"modified":"2021-04-20T05:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T05:21:40","slug":"obituary-abayawickrema-piyasiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/obituary-abayawickrema-piyasiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Abayawickrema, Piyasiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Obituary: Abayawickrema, Piyasiri<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58115\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/flowers-obituary-533x400-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"flowers-obituary\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Abayawickrema Piyasiri<\/strong>, husband of Karin, father of Chrisantha, Mark (Australia) and Niel, Father-in-law of Sarah, and Georgie (Australia), grandfather of Molly \u2013 May, Barnaby, Gabrille, and Arabella and Lottie (Australia)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Son of late Mr Benjamin de Silva and Mrs Jane Abayawickrema, Brother of Nanda, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Premasiri, Soma and Kusuma<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Passed away on 5<sup>th<\/sup>April, 2021 in Richmond, UK aged 87 years<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Cremation will be on Tuesday 4<sup>th<\/sup> May 2021 at Mortlake Crematorium Richmond UK<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituary: Abayawickrema, Piyasiri Abayawickrema Piyasiri, husband of Karin, father of Chrisantha, Mark (Australia) and Niel, Father-in-law of Sarah, and Georgie (Australia), grandfather of Molly \u2013 May, Barnaby, Gabrille, and Arabella and Lottie (Australia) Son of late Mr Benjamin de Silva and Mrs Jane Abayawickrema, Brother of Nanda, Premasiri, Soma and Kusuma Passed away on 5thApril, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22469],"tags":[33999,34000],"class_list":{"0":"post-62473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-obituaries","9":"tag-abayawickrema-piyasiri","10":"tag-piyasiri-abayawickrema","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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