By Tony Becca - From The Boundary 
REX FENNELL is no longer with us and we will miss him.
Last Friday, Fennell died during his early morning walk, and the news of his death shocked not only the cricket fraternity but also the society as a whole.
It did so because of two things. As one who served his country through cricket, through the service clubs and through the Lay Magistrates Association, he was an allrounder par excellence and a nice man.
In a life devoted to cricket, Fennell served cricket at all levels and with distinction. He was the godfather to cricket in Clarendon, he was the honorary treasurer, the honorary secretary and then the president of the Jamaica Cricket Board, he was the assistant manager on a West Indies tour and he was a member of the West Indies Board.
The indefatigable Fennell, recipient of the Order of Distinction in 1994, also served as president of the Kiwanis Club of Kingston, as Lieutenant Governor of Kiwanis International, as a Justice of the Peace, as president of the Lay Magistrates Association, and he was the anchorman of the Kiwanis project through which dozens of Jamaican children with heart disease were treated at the Geisinger Medical Hospital in Pennsylvania, US.
A quiet man, a simple man, Fennell touched the lives of many and because of that, his life will never ever be forgotten. Those who benefitted from his friendship, his advice and his kindness will tell their children and their grandchildren, probably even their great grandchildren, about the man and that will ensure that he will always be remembered.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous verse, "Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time" is a fitting epitaph for one who has left behind some huge footprints.
Rex Fennell, the smiling disciple of good, lived a life that should be an example to Jamaicans.
He was a wonderful man, he was a humble man, and that is why those who knew him well and those who did not know him that well all reacted in like manner to the news of his death.
All over Jamaica, it has been said he was a nice man and what a nice man.
