Personal Life
He has three children: Arthur Heward, Clement Tae Yong, and Leah Yoon Hee. His marriage to Alida Grace Visser ended in divorce. He neither declared nor denied being homosexual. “I never had to come out, because it was never an issue. I was never in. I was always me,” he once said. Grafftey declared his sexual orientation when he disrupted and stormed out of a service at St. George's Anglican Church in Montreal after the priest delivered a homophobic sermon.
Grafftey died February 11, 2010 at the Royal Victoria Hospital from complications from Parkinson's disease.
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