The Sa­van­nah was al­so the venue for Lewis' fu­ner­al on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, con­duct­ed by Pas­tor Rawl­ston Bod­kyn of the En­ter­prise Open Bible Church, and as­sum­ing the for­mat of a back-in-times dance and con­cert.

The Pal Joey Lewis Or­ches­tra played many items be­fore, dur­ing and af­ter the ser­vice, with mourn­ers oblig­ing by tak­ing to the dance floor. The band was aug­ment­ed by key­boardist Pel­ham God­dard, trum­peters Er­rol Ince and En­rique Moore, and sax­o­phon­ist Mal­colm Boyce. Singing Francine, who was cel­e­brat­ing her birth­day on Sat­ur­day, ren­dered a med­ley of three songs. Dur­ing the ser­vice, snacks and re­fresh­ments were served. Af­ter the ser­vice, Lewis was buried at West­ern Ceme­tery, St James.

Over­seas-based show pro­mot­ers, mu­sic pro­duc­ers and disc jock­eys seized the op­por­tu­ni­ty of be­ing still in Trinidad af­ter the fu­ner­al of Joey Lewis to hold a re­union and lime at the Brown Court, Curepe res­i­dence of pop­u­lar DJ Don­ald "Sug­ar Fin­gers" Brown last Wednes­day.

Among the for­eign-based and lo­cal show­biz folk at­tend­ing were New York-based pro­duc­er Rawl­ston "Char­lie" James; pro­mot­ers Hol­lis Kam, Clyde Hen­ry, Pat James and Cliff Har­ris; and DJs Mike the Ma­gi­cian (Texas); and Michael "Sco­bie" George (New York). The DJs were unan­i­mous in their in­ten­tion of com­ing to­geth­er for one big Car­ni­val fete in 2017, if on­ly to show how ca­lyp­so and so­ca was played back in the day.