Personal Life
Howe met his wife, Colleen, at a bowling alley when she was 17 years old and they were married four years later on April 15, 1953. A middle school in Abbotsford, British Columbia is named after Gordie and Colleen Howe, and a campground and football stadium are named after Gordie Howe in his hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Two of their sons, Marty and Mark, were his teammates on the WHA Houston Aeros and the Hartford Whalers. Mark would go on to have a long NHL career, playing 16 seasons for the Hartford Whalers, Philadelphia Flyers and the Red Wings and was one of the dominant two-way defensemen of the 1980s. He followed his father by being elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011.
Colleen was one of the founders of the Detroit Junior Red Wings and represented both Gordie and Mark financially during their careers. Their third son, Murray, is a radiologist in Toledo, Ohio. Colleen died in 2009, aged 76, from Pick's disease. Retired, Howe lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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