Walter Gretzky, camel was a Canadian, father of Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey player.
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Biography:
Walter Gretzky, CM, OOnt (October 8, 1938 – March 4, 2021) was a Canadian who is best known as the father of ice hockey star Wayne Gretzky. An avid hockey player as a youth and a keen analyst of the game, he was credited by his son as playing a key role in his success. He coached Wayne continually, starting at age three, building him a backyard rink, devising creative exercises and drills, teaching him profound insights into how to play successfully and accompanying him to most of his games.[1] He taught his son to go “To where the puck is going, not where it’s been.”[2]
Walter Gretzky
CM OOnt
Walter Gretsky TIFF 2010 – cropped.jpg
Walter Gretzky in 2010
Born
October 8, 1938
Canning, Ontario, Canada
Died
March 4, 2021 (aged 82)
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
Canadian
Occupation
Cable repairman
Spouse(s)
Phyllis Hockin
(m. 1960; died 2005)
Children
Wayne Kim Keith Glen Brent
Gretzky contributed to minor hockey in Canada, and helped many local, provincial and national charities, for which he was honoured.
Latest News:
Walter Gretzky, the father of hockey great Wayne Gretzky who built a backyard rink to improve his son’s hockey skills as a child and later appeared with him in commercials, died on March 4. He was 82.
Wayne Gretzky confirmed the death in a social media post, noting that his father had Parkinson’s disease and other health problems. He did not say where his father died.
“For me, he was the reason I fell in love with the game of hockey,” Gretzky wrote of his father. “He inspired me to be the best I could be not just in the game of hockey, but in life.”
Walter Gretzky became a name himself, a constant in Wayne’s world, beginning in their hometown of Brantford, Ontario. As Wayne’s star ascended, Walter remained a blue-collar symbol of a devoted hockey parent in a country filled with them.
Death:
Date of death: 4 March 2021
Place of death: Brantford, Canada
Cause: Gretzky was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2012, and died on March 4, 2021, at the age of 82.
