Hundreds of Guyanese gathered at the Caribe Funeral Home on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, New York on December 11 to celebrate the life of popular former Guyana batsman Vincent Mayers who collapsed and died suddenly at his home in Flatbush. Mayersie as he was known, had only weeks earlier appeared in good health at the biennial Golden Grove/Nabaclis New York organization breakfast at St. Gabriel’s Church Hall on Hawthorne Street in Brooklyn. Needless to say his demise on December 5 came as a shock to many of us who had communicated with him at that function.
The viewing and funeral service which was held at one of the larger funeral homes in Kings County from 4pm to 9pm on a frigid late Autumn evening attracted a massive crowd of friends, fans, family, and former teammates who showed up to pay their respects to the diminutive right-handed stroke player