A WONDERFUL, wonderful man’ will be laid to rest this week in his 90th year, one who spent his life helping others more, far more than he helped himself.
The funeral of Albert Francis, below, takes place at St. Mary’s Church in Burry Port at high noon on Thursday and if the congregation includes a mere fraction of those rugby players and cricketers whose lives he enriched there will be standing room only.
One of them, Phil Bennett no less, used the double wonderful description. Those of us who knew him nod in agreement because the wonder of Albert extended far beyond his job as ...