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Bongo also kept stats for the league and even once made up an original song called the Laker Girls, singing it for the Winfield Lakers, the local team in the league. He had a key to the dressing rooms and in the early days would hang jerseys for the teams and fill water bottles.

Bongo was remembered at a funeral on Saturday with, among others, his son Richard in attendance.