Mourners gather to bid farewell to ‘Mr. Hockey’ Gordie Howe
DETROIT — Murray Howe still pinches himself at the realization hockey great Gordie Howe was his father.
In a heartfelt eulogy at his father’s funeral Wednesday, Howe’s youngest son wondered aloud how he could do justice to the life of a man who was a “living legend.”
“My own hero,” Murray said of his Hall of Fame father, who died Friday at age 88.
Murray shared numerous amusing and touching stories about his dad with some 900 mourners, who packed Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament.