Canton – Detroit Red Wings legend Gordie Howe’s son, Murray Howe, said he wanted his father to be remembered not just as a hockey star, but as a tremendous person.
He read from his book “Nine Lessons I Learned from my Father,” published last fall, and discussed his father’s life during a signing at Waltonwood Cherry Hill, a senior living community, in Canton Saturday.
“My father loved hockey almost more than anything, but he didn’t want to make a big deal of it,” Howe said. “He wanted to be remembered as a good father and humanitarian.