{"id":71944,"date":"2017-11-23T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71944"},"modified":"2017-11-23T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:40:49","slug":"dr-nath-amerakone-skilled-professional-engineer-visionary-politician-businessman-and-indefatigable-patriot-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/23\/dr-nath-amerakone-skilled-professional-engineer-visionary-politician-businessman-and-indefatigable-patriot-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nath Amerakone, Skilled Professional Engineer, Visionary Politician, Businessman and Indefatigable Patriot, Passes Away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr AMARAKONE MUDIYANSELAGE NATH AMARAKONE,<\/strong><\/span> Skilled Professional Engineer, Visionary Politician, Businessman and Indefatigable Sinhala Buddhist Patriot, expired at 4.15PM on Wednesday, 22nd November, 2017, aged 81 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was a former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, former Chairman of the State Engineering Corporation, Founder President of the Organization of Professional Associations (OPA) of Sri Lanka, General Secretary of the Eksath Sinhala Maha Sabhawa,\u00a0 Head of the Sanathana Foundation, Nawinna, and a committed Philanthropist.<\/p>\n<p>He was the beloved husband of Dr. Indrani Wijesinghe Amarakone, Dental Surgeon,<\/p>\n<p>the beloved\u00a0 brother of late Alawatugoda Saddananda Thero,\u00a0 late Mr A.M.W Amarakone and late Mrs Iranganie Amarakone, Mr. A.M. Jayasinghe and Mrs Kumari Amarakone, late Mrs Balamenike Sumathipala and late Mr K.H. M. Sumathipala, Mr Sam and Mrs Srimathi Amarakone, late Mr Susil and Mrs Chandra Amarakone,\u00a0 late Mrs Heenmenike Hennayaka and Mr P.B. Hennayake, Mr Saman and Mrs Samudrika Amarakone, and Mrs Chandra and Mr. Tissa Wellappilli,<\/p>\n<p>the beloved brother-in-law of Dr Mahendra and Mrs Ellen Wijesinghe, USA, Mr Don Kularatne and Mrs Nimal Subasinghe of Horana, Mr Tissa and Dr Lakshmi Wijesinghe of Mt. Lavinia, Dr Ananda and Dr Mrs Ifiyenia Wijesinghe, USA, Mr Thusitha and Dr Mrs Chintha Wijesinghe, USA, and late Mr Indrasena and Mrs Lalitha Wijesinghe of Mt. Lavinia, and all of the nieces and nephews of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>His remains can be viewed after 8.00 AM at the Mahinda Funeral Parlour at 591 Galle Road, Mt. Lavinia on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th, November 2017. Pansacula\u00a0 ceremony at the Mahinda Funeral Parlour will be held at 8.00AM on Saturday 25th, November 2017 and Cremation at the Mt. Lavinia Crematorium at 10.00 AM on Saturday, 25th November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While we, his family, his friends and his co-workers mourn our inestimable loss, we invite all to celebrate the remarkable life and achievements of this patriotic Son of Lanka who has given his all to protect and foster his Motherland and his People.<\/p>\n<p>May he attain Nibbana!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr AMARAKONE MUDIYANSELAGE NATH AMARAKONE, Skilled Professional Engineer, Visionary Politician, Businessman and Indefatigable Sinhala Buddhist Patriot, expired at 4.15PM on Wednesday, 22nd November, 2017, aged 81 years. He was a former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, former Chairman of the State Engineering Corporation, Founder President of the Organization of Professional Associations (OPA) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}