Lovely man (From Barry And District News)

Lovely man

BARRY residents are mourning the death of one of the town's most active community members.

Seventy-four-year-old Cyril Tudor, of St Mary's Avenue, died at Llandough Hospital on Tuesday, September 3. As he was chairman of Barry carnival committee, there were few people who did not know Cyril.

Friends have remembered him this week for the immense amount of work he has done to help other people.

His wife of 52 years, Frances, said: "He was the best father and grandfather you could hope for."

Cyril and Frances had their first child, Dianne, in 1950. To come were Brenda, Graham, Colin, Julie, Wendy and his youngest daughter Alison, now 32 years of age.

"He was a strong man and very family orientated," Alison told the News. "If you ever asked him to do anything he would always do it, and although he stepped down as chairman of the carnival committee last year, he still did a lot towards it."

Cyril was a regular at Barry Services Social Club, where his daughter Alison said he was "well liked." "He always went out for his last pint in the evening there; every night at 9.30pm," she explained.

"Wherever he had been, he would always rush off before 9.30pm for his pint at the services club!"

One of the club's members, 48-year-old Rose Dawe knew him for nine years at the club. "I remember how he used to read the Barry and District News from cover to cover at the bar," she said.

He was a lovely, lovely man." Among his other community activities, Cyril used to help run a bus service for disabled children in Barry and help out at Trinity Church Male Voice Choir.

His funeral service was held at Holy Trinity Church on St Paul's Avenue at 10am on September 11.