For­mer net­ball ex­ec­u­tive Alden Lewis will be laid to rest to­mor­row fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al ser­vice at the St Charles Ro­man Catholic Church in Tu­na­puna at 10 am, then to the Tu­na­puna ceme­tery. Lewis, who was 64 at the time of his sud­den pass­ing, died of My­ocar­dial In­farc­tion Hy­per­ten­sion (a heart at­tack caused by high blood pres­sure), at his home in Can­taro Vil­lage, San­ta Cruz on Sat­ur­day night. Lewis was in his 12th term as trea­sur­er of the Port-of-Spain Net­ball League (PoSNL), hold­ing the same po­si­tion in the T&T Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNA) for two straight terms, so this year, he could not stand for re-elec­tion in the same po­si­tion.

In­stead of walk­ing away though, Lewis glad­ly ac­cept­ed be­ing named as a trustee to the league. Lewis was one of the found­ing mem­bers of Hori­zon Sports and Cul­tur­al Club (1995) which has teams that par­tic­i­pate in a num­ber of net­ball and bas­ket­ball leagues. At the time of his death, he was the man­ag­er for teams in both sport­ing dis­ci­pline. The Hori­zon club has sev­en net­ball teams from be­gin­ners to the top lev­el and its bas­ket­ball team, Courts Hori­zon, is the reign­ing na­tion­al cham­pi­on. Lewis was a for­mer em­ploy­ee of Home Con­struc­tion Lim­it­ed (HCL) and in 1999, he re­ceived a long ser­vice (over 20 years) award be­fore he re­tired.

Dur­ing his lengthy stay at Home Con­struc­tion, he got in­volved in crick­et, specif­i­cal­ly the HCL Trinci­ty Crick­et League where he was, up to his un­time­ly death, the pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer (PRO). He is the sec­ond mem­ber from T&T's net­ball fam­i­ly to die this year. A lit­tle over a month ago, the net­ball fra­ter­ni­ty bid farewell to na­tion­al net­baller So­nia Jack who died af­ter a short bat­tle with can­cer. She was 34. Last year, T&T lost an­oth­er "Ca­lyp­so Girl", net­ball shoot­ing star Lystra "Twin­kle Toes" Zamore-Shep­pard. He leaves to mourn his wife, in­ter­na­tion­al um­pire Anne-Marie Dick­son-Lewis and son An­drew.