{"id":3805,"date":"2025-10-26T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:22:05","slug":"rip-mr-david-k-thuku-former-dean-of-students-daystar-and-lecturer-biblical-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mr. David K. Thuku (former Dean of Students Daystar) and lecturer Biblical Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1.jpeg 622w, https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1-300x250.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1-608x508.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1-50x42.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1-100x84.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1-500x418.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Thuku-1-600x502.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Mr. David Thuku, who went to be with the Lord on the 24<sup>th<\/sup> of October 2025, following a medical emergency at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Thuku was the longest serving Dean of Students and\u00a0 had been serving as a member of the Department of Theology and pastoral studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Mrs. Irene Thuku, also a proud Daystar alumna class of 2009 and ongoing phD candidate at Daystar university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Condolence-for-Mr.-David-Thuku-1-1.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Mr. David Thuku, who went to be with the Lord on the 24th of October 2025, following a medical emergency at home. Mr. Thuku was the longest serving Dean of Students and\u00a0 had been serving as a member of the Department of Theology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.daystar.ac.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}