Senior civil servant in the Welsh Office John Rhys died at the age of 95. He was a member of the Beulah Congregational (later United Reformed) church, and was elected as a deacon (later elder), serving two terms as church secretary and a term as its synod clerk in Wales.
John Rhys’s cause of death
John Rhys’s cause of death was not known.
John Rhys obituary information
John Rhys’s funeral announcement was not made known.
John Rhys was born in Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, John was the son of Blodwen Wilkins and Trefor Rhys, a teacher. The family moved shortly afterward to Llandaff North, in Cardiff, where he attended Cardiff High School for boys, later studying Welsh at University College Cardiff and obtaining an MA in medieval Welsh poetry.
He was also a lay preacher, leading worship in nonconformist chapels of all denominations across south Wales, as well as an officer of the Cardiff Adult Christian Education Centre and the charity Welsh Friends of a World in Need.
His marriage in 1957 to my mother, Sylvia Wood, ended in divorce. In 1989 he married Barbara Brown, and she survives him, along with me and two granddaughters.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
