{"id":1226781,"date":"2022-10-17T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/ekow-blankson-to-be-buried-on-dec-17\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:02:00","slug":"ekow-blankson-to-be-buried-on-dec-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/ekow-blankson-to-be-buried-on-dec-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The final funeral rites and burial of late actor Ekow Blankson will be done on December 16 and 17, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was communicated at the one-week observation ceremony held at the Tema Community 11 Presec School on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family has decided that final funeral rites for our beloved Ekow Blankson will happen on December 16 and 17 here in Tema\u201d, the MC announced.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"10032189999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-15-at-12.49.52-PM-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17\" class=\"wp-image-10032189999 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A family member of the actor said the funeral services will begin at the Tema Community 11 Presec school park, followed by interment at the Tema Community 9 cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEkow asked that when he dies, no one should wear black, so there will be a special cloth for the funeral and all white for the Sunday service.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-4 wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"10032190000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-15-at-12.49.52-PM-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17\" class=\"wp-image-10032190000 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The memorial service was attended by many including fellow actors Bill Asamoah, Kalybos, Fiifi Coleman, Fred Amugi, Michael Afranie, Prince David Osei, Anthony Woode, and Beverly Afaglo.<\/p>\n<p>An entourage from The Multimedia Group Limited was present to mourn and extend condolences to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p>The team was led by the Programs Manager of Hitz FM, Prince Tsegah, who is a schoolmate of the late actor.<\/p>\n<p>With him were the Host of Hitz FM\u2019s morning show, Andy Dosty; the host of The Overdrive on Joy FM, Kofi Hayford, Joy Prime TV hosts, Ibrahim Ben-Bako and Roselyn Felli, the latter of whom had close working relations with the late actor. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-6 wp-block-gallery-5 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"10032190001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-15-at-12.49.49-PM-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17\" class=\"wp-image-10032190001 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ekow Blankson to be buried on Dec. 17\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ekow Blankson died on October 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/ekow-blankson-to-be-buried-on-dec-17\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final funeral rites and burial of late actor Ekow Blankson will be done on December 16 and 17, according to his family. The decision was communicated at the one-week observation ceremony held at the Tema Community 11 Presec School on Saturday. \u201cThe family has decided that final funeral rites for our beloved Ekow Blankson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9333,10213,26527,8515],"class_list":{"0":"post-1226781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-blankson","9":"tag-buried","10":"tag-dec","11":"tag-ekow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226781","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=1226781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}