{"id":1214998,"date":"2022-10-02T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/02\/photos-actor-waakye-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:04:30","slug":"photos-actor-waakye-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/02\/photos-actor-waakye-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Actor &#8216;Waakye&#8217;, laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The final funeral rites of late Ghanaian actor, Reverend Stephen Prince Yawson alias Waakye, have been held.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral ceremony was held at the forecourt of the State House. The late actor died at the 37 Military Hospital on August 1, 2022, at the age of 52.<\/p>\n<p>Waakye featured in several prominent Ghanaian movies and was ordained a Reverend Minister in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral was graced by several celebrated Ghanaians including his colleagues in the movie industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out some photos shot by Adomonline\u2019s Gershon Mortey<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167875 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-18-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167880 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-27-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167852 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167864 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167862 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-29-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167855 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-25-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167888 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167860 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-16-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167877 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-17-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167879 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-15-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167876 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-7-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167867 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-11-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167872 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-12-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167873 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-13-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167874 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-32-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167858 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WAAKYE-FUNERAL-32-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\" class=\"wp-image-2167858 lazy\" title=\"Photos: Actor 'Waakye', laid to rest\"\/><\/figure>\n<div> <span style=\"font-weight: 900\"> Tags: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: red; background: #f1f1f1; font-weight: bold; padding: 5px 10px; display: inline; font-size: 12px; margin: 1px\"> Prince Yawson<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: red; background: #f1f1f1; font-weight: bold; padding: 5px 10px; display: inline; font-size: 12px; margin: 1px\"> Prince Yawson Waakye<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: red; background: #f1f1f1; font-weight: bold; padding: 5px 10px; display: inline; font-size: 12px; margin: 1px\"> Waakye<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/photos-actor-waakye-laid-to-rest\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final funeral rites of late Ghanaian actor, Reverend Stephen Prince Yawson alias Waakye, have been held. The funeral ceremony was held at the forecourt of the State House. The late actor died at the 37 Military Hospital on August 1, 2022, at the age of 52. Waakye featured in several prominent Ghanaian movies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[763,7819,809,7820,19480],"class_list":["post-1214998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-laid","tag-photos","tag-rest","tag-waakye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}