My father, the Rev Canon Jeffry Smith, who has died of cancer aged 66, was a caring man with a big heart and a big beard. Jeffry lived a life of adventure and of ordained ministry, in California, England, Bermuda and Scotland.
Born in Inglewood, California, to Roger Smith, a minor-league baseball player turned schoolteacher, and Marguerite (nee Beverly), a schoolteacher, Jeffry went to Claremont high school.
