IN MEMORY OF REX "COUNT DE BOXCAR" YOUNG
Rex Young passed away yesterday from injuries sustained in a fall in his home in Holland, Michigan. I will add more details when they become available. Native Americans have an expression, "My heart is on the ground", needless to say this is true, we are deeply saddened by the loss of a dear friend.
I just spoke with Sandy, and she is holding up well under the circumstances, we even managed to talk of some of the good times we all had together, & there were many. Rest well dear friend,,,,we will miss you! 
REX & HIS SIDEKICK CABOOSE
posted by 24-HOUR-MAN | 4:27 PM
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Rex was truely one of the funniest clowns I have seen. I worked with him the season of 1963 and I can not put a value on the things he taught me about clowning. I don't think he knew how funny he was. We have lost a great talent.
Jerry
I was on Mills Bros. with him in the very early 60s and worked with him numerous times along the way as did our whole family. He was a fine fellow, great circus clown and one of the real "good Guys". Our deepest sympathy.
This is a perfect example of why we should call our friends more often. When I was in Palm Springs I looked up Rex and Sandy's phone numbrer. I wanted to tell them about Circuspace so they could talk to all of their old friends.I have showed Holland Mi.several times in the past few years, so I have had some good visits with them. However I never got around to calling.So when we were driving thru Michigan this week I got the number out and called. Sandy said Rex died the night before. We love Rex and Sandy and will miss Rex .He was a great guy and I know Sandy will miss him so much. They were a perfect couple. Joanne
I was blessed to have known Rex since 1998 to the month he passed away. In 1998 he was performing as Boxcar the Clown at a local fair. I took a picture of him and painted a large painting from it. Later I learned the this particular clown actual lived in town so I brought the painting over and gave it to him as a gift. We've been friends ever since. Often going out for lunch at least once a month and sometime his wife Sandy would come along. There he would tell me stories of circus life of a clown and who all he knew. I was hooked on all the tales and we were talking about doing a book on his life but sadly never got around to it. As he would often say, "I don't know where the time all goes." At the funeral they had up on the podium a large picture of him and Sandy as clowns by a circus elephant and the painting I did in 1998. (That kind of choked me up.) I wrote in the guest register that God needed laughter so he sent up a clown. May God bless all the clowns that make the world a happier place.
I was blessed to have known Rex since 1998 to the month he passed away. In 1998 he was performing as Boxcar the Clown at a local fair. I took a picture of him and painted a large painting from it. Later I learned the this particular clown actual lived in town so I brought the painting over and gave it to him as a gift. We've been friends ever since. Often going out for lunch at least once a month and sometime his wife Sandy would come along. There he would tell me stories of circus life of a clown and who all he knew. I was hooked on all the tales and we were talking about doing a book on his life but sadly never got around to it. As he would often say, "I don't know where the time all goes." At the funeral they had up on the podium a large picture of him and Sandy as clowns by a circus elephant and the painting I did in 1998. (That kind of choked me up.) I wrote in the guest register that God needed laughter so he sent up a clown. May God bless all the clowns that make the world a happier place.
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