{"id":39390,"date":"2015-12-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/39390\/double-tragedy-for-family\/"},"modified":"2015-12-11T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:12:42","slug":"double-tragedy-for-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/12\/double-tragedy-for-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Double tragedy for family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awie was a well known teacher and school principal. He was very popular, loved by many and served the community well. He leaves behind two daughters, three sons, 13 grandchildren, a brother and a sister.<\/p>\n<p>Within two weeks another tragedy struck the Kirkman family, when Awie&#8217;s eldest son, Dexter, passed away on 2 December after loosing his battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Dexter was a role model, very dedicated, a hard worker and well loved by all who knew him.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves behind his wife, Stephanie, and three daughters Cherelle, Tamia and Beyonce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your family will always love you, dearly miss you both and will cherish all the wonderful memories forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Kirkman family would like to extend their sincere gratitude for the unending support they received during their time of loss.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39390 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/12\/double-tragedy-for-family\/attachment\/15xx25-1_71099\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/12\/15xx25-1_71099-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/12\/15xx25-1_71099-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/12\/15xx25-1_71099-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/12\/15xx25-1_71099.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39392'>\n\t\t\t\tMr Awie Kirkman passed (80) away on 20 November.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Awie Kirkman, a well known visitor to the Middelburg Observer, has sadly passed away on 20 November and was laid to rest on 28 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":39391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[3043,3042],"class_list":["post-39390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-awie-kirkman","tag-funeral"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["awie kirkman","funeral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}