The funeral was held at St George’s church in Afrata yesterday of Stefanos Skarakis, who has died from lung cancer at the age of 48. Coming from a well-known Afrata family, Stefanos was a shepherd, like his father Michalis and his brother Giorgos, while he latterly did a number of different jobs. For several years he was an able and affable waiter at the Afrata Paradise beach bar in the summer, and last October he was working at the Tzerani olive oil mill in Kolymbari.