The Boston Herald, March 24th, 2007
Byline: JOE FITZGERALD
Bobby Orr sounded kind of down when he was reached at his Florida home earlier this week on his 59th birthday.
"I'm fine," he insisted. "I was sad when Mom died, of course, but this is harder, because there's such a void, knowing both of them are gone."
His father, Doug, was 82 when he died in his sleep at the family's Parry Sound home in Ontario last month.
Back in those raucous days when his son was the heart and soul of the Big, Bad Bruins, an era of excitement unsurpassed in this town, no one enjoyed it more than Doug Orr, whose own hockey prowess was shelved w...
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