There is a photograph of her in the stairwell of their home.
She also negotiated the boys’ contracts, founded the Detroit Junior Red Wings hockey program, trademarked the “Mr. Colleen Howe NHL Gordie Howe’s wife. The first woman sports agent ever, she was enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2000 and the arena in her hometown of Sandusky, Mich., was renamed Colleen J. Howe Arena.Colleen Howe, wife of hockey legend Gordie Howe, has died, according to a statement released by the Detroit Red Wings.Howe was 76. He cooked her meals, made sure she took her medication and helped her find her way when she found herself lost and frightened in her own home.We encountered an issue signing you up. "Colleen was a pioneer hockey wife and hockey mom and devoted her entire life to the betterment of the game.As well, she founded the Detroit Junior Red Wings, the first Junior A team in the United States, and was involved in developing the first Gordie Howe Hockeyland arena in Michigan.More recently, his youngest grandson, Travis, had moved into Gordie's home to help out.NHL commissioner Gary Bettman also released a statement.Born Colleen Joffa, she married Howe, who played 25 seasons with the Red Wings, after a two-year courtship in 1953. Gordie Howe is straight. As the story goes, Baun was playing for the Oakland Seals seven or eight years later and tried to hit Howe again. Hockey legend Gordie Howe died on Friday at age 88. Colleen Howe used to be married to Hockey great, Gordie Howe, who sadly passed away reports say. June 10, 2016 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment. Hit the "Tweet" button at the top ↑ 2. The strapping Red Wings star and his beautiful bride were married on April 15, 1953, in a church about four blocks away from Detroit’s Olympia Stadium. But he always comes home to his Colleen, to sit with her, take her hand in his and talk about anything, really, while he waits for the smile that seldom comes.Colleen has not spoken to her husband in two years. About. His wife, Colleen, died in 2009 at 76. She always will be.And now she is adrift, trapped in a body she cannot make work and with a memory that is cut off behind the veil of an untreatable disease.Howe has two nurses to help him care for his wife.The next issue of Posted Newsletter will soon be in your inbox.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.It was Colleen who choreographed the 45-year-old Gordie’s return to the game with the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association in 1973 so he could play with his sons, Mark and Marty.