LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The community celebrated a fixture of the Jeffersontown community Friday night. 

Eddie Craven, known locally as "Meatball," died Jan. 15 after a battle with colon cancer.

For decades, he and his twin brother, Alan, known as "Spaghetti," would ride bikes around town, spreading smiles and sharing stories. Meatball even got his own mini hometown hero banner in Jeffersontown.

Friday night, Meatball was made an honorary Jeffersontown police officer, and a huge crowd came out to honor him.

"People are devastated by this," Mayor Carol Pike said. "They are icons of this community, and he will be sadly missed. I said this the other day, they have nothing. They have a bike. They don't have a phone, but they are the happiest people, and maybe we should take a lesson from them."

Meatball's funeral mass was at noon Saturday at St. Edward Catholic Church in Jeffersontown. The community lined a procession route that traveled through the town to the cemetery.

"We do a lot of things around Jeffersontown," his brother Alan said. "We help people, help them with what they need to do, clean up floors and mop and do everything and I am happy all the time. Nothing gets me down, like my brother."

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