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Article content As the funeral procession pulled out of St. Mark’s Anglican Church on Saturday, the sound of a hundred hockey sticks tapping the sidewalk filled the air. It was a final tribute to Walter Gretzky, the world’s most famous hockey dad, Lord Mayor of Brantford, community booster extraordinaire, and all-round great guy, who died on Thursday evening at the age of 82. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Community pays tribute to Walter Gretzky, man with a 'heart of gold' Back to video “He was a beloved national treasure,” said Rev. T...

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky remembered his father as a man with 'a heart of gold' on Saturday at Walter Gretzky's funeral in Brantford, Ont.

BRANTFORD, Ont. — Walter Gretzky’s family thought the end was coming quickly in the middle of February.

Wayne Gretzky said of his late father, known as Canada's hockey dad, “We’d be a way better world if there was so many more people like my dad.”

BRANTFORD, Ont. — Walter Gretzky's family thought the end was coming quickly in the middle of February.The father of hockey's greatest player had suffered a serious hip injury, and after battling . . .