CANTON, Mass. (AP) -Brendan Burke, the son of Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke and an advocate for gay rights, has been remembered at a funeral Mass.
The Mass at St. John The Evangelist Catholic church in Canton, Mass., on Tuesday came four days after Burke died in a car accident on a snowy Indiana road.
The funeral was attended by Maple Leafs players and staff, as well as players and coaches of the Miami University of Ohio hockey team, where the 21-year-old Burke was the team’s student manager.
Burial was private.
Burke lived in Canton and graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School. He was in the news last year when ESPN.com ran a story about his decision to tell his father he was gay. Brian Burke said it didn’t change how he thought of his son.
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