SASKATOON, Saskatchewan – Gordie Howe’s ashes will be interred in a statue at the Saskatoon arena.
A Saskatoon official said Wednesday that the city has received permission from the province to inter the cremated remains of Howe and his wife, Colleen, at the base of a statue that honors him.
The family made the request this month, but the city needed to apply to the province to have the statue at SaskTel Centre and a small portion of adjacent area declared a cemetery.
Howe was born in Floral, but his family moved nine days later to Saskatoon, where he grew up before embarking on a record-setting hockey career.