Reverend Albert Baldwin Fox

Not a name many will recognise. I've just come back from his funeral.

Chris has been in contact with an elderly couple in the village for the last couple of years. Turned out that they were Christians, and had a strong and well developed faith. Albert was quite a bit older than Rita, and his health failed over the last year or so, with him finally dying last week.

The funeral was held in the Anglican church in Somerton, although Albert had been a congregational minister. There was something strikingly English about the service: Norman stone church, lots of old guys in suits with runny noses, The vicar wereing robes, watery sunlight filtering through showing everyone's breath steaming. Then there were the hymns.

Albert served God in his generation.