Thank You, Mr. Hockey Day to include burial of Gordie Howe’s ashes in Saskatoon
SASKATOON — Members of Gordie Howe’s family are getting ready to celebrate his life in his hometown of Saskatoon.
The city has declared Sunday as Thank You, Mr. Hockey Day, and a number of events are planned to honour the hockey legend, who died in June at age 88.
A private ceremony is to be held Sunday morning to inter the ashes of Howe and his wife, Colleen, inside a statue of him that sits in front of SaskTel Centre.
The family made the request, and the city successfully applied to the province to have the statue and a small portion of adjacent area declared a cemetery.